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Investing in Ohio's Students and Future Investing in Ohio’s Students and Future “Thank you for OhioLINK -- a world-class idea that out-of-staters envy.” --Thomas Suddes, Teaching Fellow, Ohio University $$$ and Sense Nationally Renowned Program’s Progress Stalls with Ohio Budget The OhioLINK appropriation in the Where does the OhioLINK budget go? current State of Ohio biennium operation budget will not only curtail new initiatives, but it will also eliminate currently provided information resources. Entering the tenth year of operations, the OhioLINK program has proven that cooperation and statewide licensing of information resources benefit colleges and universities of all sizes. The economic power to license for all of Ohio higher education has not only reduced the rate of increase in library costs but also has extended the buying power of F2003 Projected the individual library budget. Large univ- ersities can buy more research materials and small institutions gain access to resources formerly beyond their means. F1992F1993F1994F1995F1996F1997F1998F1999F2000F2001F2002F2003 In 2002, the OhioLINK program’s tenth year of operation, the immediate OhioLINK Growth in Services impact of the budget reduction will be a Delivered Versus Growth in Budget reduction in expenditures for electronic content. Increasingly, the budget has been spent on content delivery, leveraging our efficiently created technical infrastructure that delivers services purchased by the OhioLINK program. The expenditure on the OhioLINK program has proven increasingly effective over ten years of operation. Its total annual funding is only 85% more than in 1994, compared to growth in institutions served and in services of Combined Capital 300% to 1200%. and Operating Budget 2 OhioLINK Snapshot Milestones Cost Effective Purchasing Power OhioLINK Central Catalog Research Databases Electronic Journal Center (EJC) 1992 ABI/Inform & • Total cost of OhioLINK EJC content Central Catalog live Periodical Abstracts in 2001 $ 16.4 Million November 1992 November 1992 • Average percent of EJC titles held Newspaper Abstracts in print by Ohio universities 25% 1993 March 1993 • Estimated cost to duplicate the Online Borrowing begins EJC in print at universities $ 65.6 Million Univ. of Akron, Case Western, Bowling Green St., Central State, Univ. Reference Databases of Cincinnati, MCO, • F2001 OhioLINK statewide Miami, Wright State, license costs $ 4.4 Million Youngstown State January 1994 • F2001 Cost of comparable access 5 Million Bib Records if licensed by individual libraries $ 13.8 Million NEOUCOM 1,000,000 May 1994 Reference Searches State Library of Ohio June 1994 Controlling Costs Dissertation Abstracts July 1994 OCLC First Search (3) Average Annual Journal Cost Increase August 1994 for Typical Academic Research College Library 1994 Average Annual Cost Increase Medline, CINAHL, for Journals Licensed through OhioLINK HealthSTAR, CANCERLIT, Columbus State & AIDSLINE, PsycINFO Shawnee State and RLG Eureka (5) 7.7% 8.0% September 1994 September 1994 6.1% Univ. of Dayton 4.5% October 1994 Art Index November 1994 2001 vs. 2000 2002 vs. 2001 Cleveland State Education Index January 1995 January 1995 Bio. & Agri. Index, Biography Index, & Univ. of Toledo Library Literature As higher education funding is under February 1995 February 1995 pressure, the combination of healthy college and Applied Science & university library budgets and the OhioLINK Tech., Book Review program budget maximize statewide purchasing 1995 Digest, Cumulative Book Index, Essay & power and information resource availability. General Literature, Access to the OhioLINK provided resources that Kent State, Owens, Index to Legal cover the breadth of available scholarship is & Southern State Periodicals & Books essential to support efforts to create a robust 21st- March 1995 March1995 century Ohio economy. 10 Million Bib Records -- Continued -- OhioLINK Snapshot 3 E-Books First Electronic Books See Heavy Use netLibrary E-Book Availability and Usage The OhioLINK program is a leader in expanding information access through the emergence of electronic books. A diverse collection of 12,000+ titles already demonstrates the users’ strong desire to select and use e- books. The collection was expanding but with new budget constraints, users are now limited in the number of books available to them. Plans remain to expand access, if it is affordable, in this highly effective program. OhioLINK Resources Support Regional Campus Scholarship Dr. Jacquelyn Yates scattered around the State’s universities. For me, teaching at a Assistant Professor, Political Science regional campus, OhioLINK is a dream come true. I would Kent State University - Salem never have been able to locate all the resources that OhioLINK has provided, much less arrange to borrow To do assigned reports on political Because of OhioLINK, or purchase them. The cost in time and science topics, Dr. Yates directs students to my colleague and I have money would have been prohibitive.” KentLINK, OhioLINK, and the research “Because of OhioLINK, my databases. “OhioLINK provides access to recently completed two colleague, John Logue, and I have recently resources far beyond what my students books on employee completed two books on employee would be able to get in our regional campus ownership. ownership. The first, The Real World of library, allowing them to range more widely Employee Ownership to be published by and successfully in their quest for material for their reports.” Cornell University Press, provides a comprehensive study of Dr. Yates’ area of research is employee ownership, and employee ownership focused on Ohio. The second studies she is affiliated with the Ohio Employee Ownership employee ownership worldwide. Research such as represented Center. The Center investigates how employee ownership in these two books could not have been completed without can contribute to anchoring jobs, smooth leadership OhioLINK. It would have been just too ponderous a task.” succession, and create capital income for workers, in “OhioLINK offers a compassionate, just, and merciful addition to the wages they earn. system. It is designed with users in mind -- working smoothly Through OhioLINK, I have been able to find all the and efficiently for the user....” books and articles I need -- much of the material was 4 OhioLINK Snapshot Central Catalog Central Catalog Continues Providing Increased Book Collection Utility Number of Bibliographic Records in the Central Catalog The size and diversity of the OhioLINK Central Catalog continues to demonstrate a high level of book utilization. Now it is also increasing access to audio and video materials. This benefit is clearly seen as online borrowing showed strong growth in 2001. Undergraduates continue to account for a greater Fast Facts percentage of overall Participating Institutions activity. Tradition- 1994....................9 ally, undergraduates 1995..................14 rarely used inter- 1996.................33 1997..................45 library loan (ILL). 1998.................53 Their use of online 1999..................74 borrowing is a Online Patron Borrowing by Patron Type 2000..................79 special program 2001....................79 achievement. Filled Online Patron Borrowing Requests OhioLINK Snapshot 5 Central Catalog Percent of Items Held by Number of Libraries In 2001, the catalog included Ohio’s 17 public/research universities, 23 community and/or technical colleges, the State Library of Ohio, and 38 independent colleges. This statewide collection included more than 7.9 million unique records. Access to the OhioLINK Central Catalog allows participating libraries to diversify their collections by purchasing items not already held within the system, instead of purchasing duplicate copies of low-demand items. OhioLINK and Dedicated Professor Deliver Interesting French Translation Material Leanne Wierenga today; she turned to OhioLINK. Associate Professor of Languages Within days, Professor Wierenga had a stack of books from Wittenberg University around the state and quickly discovered fascinating new aspects. As she got more involved, Professor Wierenga Professor of French Leanne found she needed information on myth and Wierenga wanted to create a new French For developing new symbol, literary criticism, and psychological literature translation course and was courses at a small interpretation of fairy tales. Wittenberg’s Thomas looking for a theme “that would really liberal arts school like Library had some of the commonly read works, grab students.” Professor Wierenga Wittenberg, OhioLINK but she needed more. Again she turned to states, “On a lark, although I knew very is crucial. OhioLINK and discovered Jack Zipes, Marie- little about the topic, I picked French Louise von Franz, Raymonde Robert, and others. fairy tales.” Fairy tales would provide And, as students are taught to do, she carefully interesting material for the students to translate. Without combed through the bibliographies of her OhioLINK books further thought or preparation, she committed to teaching and discovered and ordered even more books! the course. Professor Wierenga eventually attempted to buy some of Though she knew something about the medieval her favorites and asked the library to do so, as well. She origins of some common fairy tales and that Frenchman discovered that “you can’t get them through Amazon.com”. Charles Perrault is responsible for popular stories like Many valuable books on the topic were obscure or out of print, “Little Red Riding Hood”, she realized in a panic
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