On Friday, March 7, the Wichita State University Libraries officially became a member of MOBIUS (https://mobiusconsortium.org), a multi-state consortium of over 65 academic libraries stretching from Iowa to Texas that provides access to shared resources, services, and expertise. WSU is the first large research university in Kansas to become a part of the MOBIUS Consortium, but we anticipate the addition of others shortly.
Through its OpenRS platform, the members of MOBIUS share more than 29 million items through a courier service that operates 5 days a week. By the end of 2025, the 2-million-plus items held in the WSU collections will be added to this shared system. WSU students and faculty will be able to locate and directly request print items from our partner libraries without having to go through the traditional Interlibrary Loan processes, thereby improving the speed with which these materials are delivered.
We are in the initial phases of linking our systems together and anticipate that all systems will be “go” by the end of the calendar year! As the set-up gets a little further along and more definitive implementation dates have been determined, WSU-wide announcements will be made.
