2. The OhioLINK Library System Ohio Library and Information Network

3. Library Automation OCLC to OhioLINK Ohio’s Pioneering Tradition Continues

4. What is OhioLINK? 80 member consortium 17 public universities 39 private colleges 23 community & technical colleges State Library of Ohio 113 campus libraries Central Catalog 31 million library items statewide 7 million unique master records in catalog Daily Delivery

5. Services 4,500 simultaneous users Online borrowing Electronic requests User-initiated Non-mediated Outside users 98 research databases Full text Citation indexes Variety of disciplines Full text resources Online encyclopedias Dictionaries

6. Who Benefits? 500,000 students Faculty at 80 institutions of HE Staff Researchers

7. OhioLINK History 1987 Ohio board of regents recommends statewide electronic catalog system 1990 OhioLINK selects Innovative Interfaces, Inc. – I. I. I. OhioLINK licenses 4 databases from university microfilms

8. OhioLINK History 1992 6 universities install OhioLINK 1996 OhioLINK services offered through World Wide Web 1998 OPAL – 20 Ohio Private Academic Libraries 2001 80 Members

9. OhioLINK Governance

10. What’s New? NetLibrary Electronic books 14,000 titles, 7,000 more in Aug. Digital Media Center Archives and provides access to multimedia North American museum images Art and architecture images Digitized images from library collections Add your collection of images Landsat 7 satellite images of Ohio Audio/Video is on the way! Physics Videos

11. Show Me! http://muskingum.edu~library http://cat.ohionet.org/ http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search/

12. Questions? Comments? Thank You!