Ed Rivenburgh

Ed Rivenburgh is the winner of the 2011 Virginia Boucher/OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award.

The national award, administered by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), recognizes an individual for outstanding professional achievement, leadership and significant contributions to the fields of interlibrary loan and document delivery and is generously supported by OCLC, the world's largest library cooperative.

Rivenburgh was selected for his excellent leadership of the IDS Project, a resource sharing cooperative he founded along with 11 other library directors. According to his nominators, this cooperative is fundamentally changing how ILL processing and resource sharing is done both among its more than 65 New York library members and across the state and the nation. Rivenburgh's leadership is providing out-of-the-box thinking, streamlines the ILL process and fosters a unique community partnership of mutually supportive libraries.