Rather than describing the ideal reuse tools and environment, this year's tools and environments working group looked at the barriers to institutionalizing a reuse program that are caused and/or supported by current tools and environments.
With that focus, the goals of the group were to:
The group deliberately ignored libraries since there is a lot of existing research data in this area and there are working libraries.
After a brainstorming session drawing on the experiences of the members, the list of barriers were grouped into the following broad categories: