Oberlander received his MLS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent publications include a chapter on the future of ILL in "Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 3rd edition," (American Library Association, 2011), and "Point-of-Need Collection Development: The Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) and a New System for Acquisitions and Interlibrary Loan Integrated Workflow and Collection Development," co-authored with Kate Pitcher, Tim Bowersox and Mark Sullivan, "Collection Management," vol 35. (3) 2010, p.222-236, which was republished in "Patron-driven acquisitions: current successes and future directions," (Routledge, 2011).