BLC has taken enormous strides in the development of consortial CDL for ILL. In September 2020, the BLC Board of Directors convened a CDL Working Group charged with investigating delivery mechanisms, technology, workflows, policies, copyright and legal issues, shared storage solutions, and other actions related to a potential consortial implementation of CDL among interested BLC member libraries.
After almost twelve months of intensive work, the Working Group released its final report in September 2021, ‘Consortial CDL: Implementing Controlled Digital Lending as a Mechanism for Interlibrary Loan', after approval from the BLC Board of Directors in August 2021. This report sought the formation of a Controlled Digital Lending Steering Committee to collaborate with Index Data to develop a viable solution to facilitate consortial CDL transactions. This collaboration led to the development of ReShare CDL, a module within the consortial resource sharing software owned and maintained by Index Data. In the spring and summer of 2023, a development partnership of BLC member institutions worked with Index Data to refine the software solution in anticipation of the BLC’s Early Adopters Program.
