ILLiad Birthday 2026

Date Recorded: March 17, 2026

Duration: Approximately 4.5 hours (multiple sessions)

Description: The ILLiad Birthday is an annual celebration of the ILLiad community, featuring presentations from Atlas Systems staff, partner organizations, and library practitioners on the latest developments in interlibrary loan. The 2026 event covers ILLiad 10, API-powered bulk requesting workflows, discovery-to-delivery improvements for book chapters, OCR and Article Exchange, open access integration, and updates from across the ILL ecosystem.

Sessions:

Sara Juel, Atlas Systems — ILLiad 10 | General Presentation

Mia Partlow & Kristen Wilson, UNC Chapel Hill — Bulk ILL, Y'all! Using ILLiad APIs to Submit ILL Requests

Mark Sullivan, IDS Network — IDS Network Most Common Projects, Trainings, etc.

Marie Peeples & Sofiya Dahman, University of Memphis — One Chapter at a Time: Improving the Discovery-to-Delivery Process for Book Chapter Interlibrary Loan Requests

John Bodfish, OCLC & Stephanie Spires, Atlas Systems — OCR with Article Exchange API

Mike Richins, ExLibris — RapidILL

Sara Juel, Atlas Systems — Open Access in the Web Pages

Dustin Stokes & Katie Gillespie, Atlas Systems — What's New at Atlas?

Audience: ILLiad users at all experience levels, interlibrary loan staff, and library technology administrators.