Tom Bruno

Tom Bruno is the Director of Content Access and Metadata Services at the Princeton University Library. He has worked in the field of resource sharing for almost thirty years. He currently serves as the Information Coordinator Officer for the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing section and has served in various library leadership roles at the regional and national level.

Tom studied Ancient Greek and Latin at Boston University and obtained his Master’s of Library and Information Science at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts. He has written and presented extensively on topics in interlibrary loan and has been a passionate advocate for the cause of resource sharing throughout his career.

Lapis Cohen

Lapis Cohen is a Library Specialist in Resource Sharing at the University of Pennsylvania, who is passionate about library outreach and collaboration, both locally and globally.

Locally, in 2019 Lapis co-founded, alongside Ken Raining, Ben Webster, and Megan Brown, the “Library 101” project at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries providing educational sessions for students, staff, and faculty enabling them to make best use of library resources and interlibrary loan.

Globally, in 2021 Lapis co-created, with Dennis Massie and Brian Miller, the International ILL Toolkit, a freely available, crowd-sourced online asset, designed to promote and enable greater ease of global resource sharing among libraries.

Lapis was honored and humbled to receive the 2025 ALA RUSA STARS Virginia Boucher Distinguished ILL Librarian Award.

Previously, Lapis was a member of the ALA RUSA STARS International ILL Committee (2021-2025, chair 2022-2024) and is currently a member of IFLA DDRS and the RSCVD Steering Committee.

Peter Collins

Peter D. Collins has worked in resource sharing and interlibrary loan for more than 25 years, in academic libraries and collaborative organizations in the United States and internationally. He most recently served as Director of Resource Sharing at OCLC, where he helped set strategic direction and guide the development of global interlending and document delivery systems. Prior to that, he held leadership roles at the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College and spent many years managing and supporting the Borrow Direct consortium. Peter has been active in the IFLA interlending and document supply community for over a decade, including serving as Chair of the Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee, during which time he was a founding member of the RSCVD service. He continues to serve on the RSCVD Steering Committee and as a member of IFLA DDRS. He is currently based in Doha, Qatar.

Giovanna Colombo

Graduated in Political Sciences (University of Milano) with a post-diploma specialization as documentalist.

She has been working as librarian at the Science Library of Insubria University for user services and for national and international resource sharing since 2002.

She was the coordinator of the NILDE Libraries Committee (CBN) from 2020 to 2023 and of the NILDE Internationalization Working Group (2017-2023).

She participated in the HERMES project “Strengthening digital resource sharing during COVID and beyond” (2021-2023) and in the RSCVD initiative since the beginning.

She also collaborates with the NILDE Internationalization and Communication working groups and She volunteers for RSCVD through CBN’s Virtual Library.

She is currently a member of the IFLA Document Delivery Resource Sharing (DDRS) Standing Committee since 2021 and of the Resource Sharing Collaborative and Voluntary Document Delivery (RSCVD) Steering Committee ) since 2023.

Filiz Ekingen Flores Mamondi

Filiz Ekingen Flores Mamondi graduated from the Department of Librarianship at Istanbul University in 1992 and completed her M.A. degree in the same department in 2000. She began her professional career at Boğaziçi University Library in 1993, where she held various positions focused on reference services, interlibrary loan, and electronic resources. Since 2025, she has been serving as the International Student Advisor at the Office of International Relations at Boğaziçi University.

Her professional interests include document supply, interlibrary cooperation, information access systems, information literacy, electronic resources, and OCLC services.

Filiz Ekingen Flores Mamondi is actively involved in both national and international professional organizations. She served as the Coordinator of the ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium) Collaboration Working Group. Since 2019, she has been a member of the IFLA Document Supply and Resource Sharing Standing Committee and acted as the Committee’s Communication Coordinator during the 2021–2023 term. She has also contributed to the HERMES Project as a member of its Scientific Committee.

Silvana Mangiaracina

Graduated in Mathematics, she has worked at the Italian National Reserch Council since 1989. Also known as “the mother” of NILDE, who helped to give birth, still promotes the development and dissemination of its collaborative resource sharing philosophy in Italy and abroad. Silvana ha authored more than 150 publications, in journals, books and conference proceedings. Member of the IFLA Standing Committee on Document Delivery and Resource Sharing (2013-2020) and co-founder of the international initiative RSCVD, of which she is at present Technical Advisor. Orcid: 0000-0003-0717-1227

Katia Medawar

Katia Medawar is the Director of the Public Engagement at Qatar National Library. She holds a master’s degree in Librarianship from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and has established a long career across several renowned institutions.

Katia began her journey as an Automation Librarian and later served as an Interlibrary Loan Librarian at the American University of Beirut. She then moved to the Institut Pasteur Library in Paris, contributing her expertise in resource sharing and library operations. For the past 15 years, she has been based in Qatar, where she served as the Head of Public Services at Qatar University Library before taking on her current role at Qatar National Library.

With extensive experience in public services, resource sharing, and library automation, Katia is passionate about advancing research, learning, and community engagement. Her commitment to innovative library programs and services continues to inspire and enrich the communities she serves.

Elisabetta Tamburini

Elisabetta Tamburini has served as Director of the Library of Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome since 2017 and as Interim Director of the Library of the Department of Literature and Modern Cultures since 2020. She holds a degree in Humanities, advanced qualifications in Library Science, and several postgraduate specialisations in digital libraries, indexing, and European institutional studies.

With over twenty years of experience in academic librarianship, she has developed expertise in innovative library services, information literacy, digital reference, and centralised document delivery. She is the author of numerous publications and a speaker at national and international conferences. Her work also includes socially oriented initiatives, such as projects addressing gender-based violence and library services in juvenile detention centres. She currently oversees training for the University’s Civil Service programs and serves on several institutional committees and working groups.

Donald Taylor

Donald Taylor is the University Copyright Officer and also the Head of InterLibrary Loans at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

He has always been fascinated by the integrity of the resource sharing (interlibrary loan) system, and hopes that librarians, publishers and policy makers can work together to ensure that resource sharing is allowed to flourish.

He was co-chair of the Council of Prairie and Pacific Libraries’ Resource Sharing Community from 2023-2025; chair of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations’ Copyright Committee from 2024-2025 and has been a member of IFLA’s Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee since 2021.

Donald is currently researching how contracts and copyright impact resource sharing of ebooks in Canada and is involved in consortial efforts on ensuring the continued viability of resource sharing in Canada.

Ashli Wells

Ashli Wells is the Head of Access and Collection Services at the Vanderbilt University Massey Law Library. She has worked in libraries since 2012 when she began as a volunteer at her local public library, and this experience fostered an interest in the librarian profession and resource sharing. She is currently a member of the ILFA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section Committee. Ashli holds an MLIS from Valdosta State University, an MS in Public Service Management from Cumberland University, and a BS in Psychology from Cumberland University. She currently resides in the Nashville, Tennessee area.