Investing in ’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 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 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 that and OhioLINK remains her only access to them. there were large gaps in her knowledge and that the “For developing new courses at a small liberal arts school course was a mere two weeks off. Since no one at like Wittenberg, OhioLINK is crucial! It is not just those Wittenberg had taught this material before, she did not millions of volumes. The quick delivery that OhioLINK offers expect to find much on it in the campus library. What is important. So is the ability to keep the books for six weeks was she to do? She did what many Ohio professors do (assuming a renewal).”

6 OhioLINK Snapshot Central Catalog Research Databases

Cuyahoga, Lakeland, & Sinclair 1995 April 1995 -- Continued -- OhioLINK Delivers--Anytime, Anywhere OSU & Ohio U Ohio Capitol Conn. Dean Fraga May 1995 May 1995 Biology Department 15 Million Bib Records 10 Million Reference Searches “I think OhioLINK is fantastic. I have used it frequently to Britannica Online find papers I need for grant preparation, classroom activities, and September 1995 manuscripts. I find it to be an enormous time saver, and I appreciate Edison State & Lorain being able to search the databases from home.” November 1995 Cinci. State & Oberlin December 1995 Comparison of Online Borrowing Supply and Demand Ohio Northern ERIC & BioethicsLINE by Institution Type January 1996 January 1996 Requests Made Hocking & Ohio Wesleyan 73% Universities February 1996 1996 Clark State & Terra Biological Abstracts April 1996 April 1996 Rio Grande Oxford English Dict. May 1996 May 1996 500,000 Online Requests English Verse Drama 19% Independent & Medical Electives Colleges June 1996 English Poetry & Gale(2) 8% Two-Year Colleges July 1996 Requests Received Compendex, PAIS, A Matter of Fact, 7% Two-Year Colleges Am. Heritage Dict., Belmont, Cedarville, Columbia Ency., & Mt. St. Joseph Thesaurus, ARTFL September 1996 September 1996 22% Independent Denison, Kenyon, Ohio Colleges Wesleyan, & Wooster November 1996

Capital & Xavier RILM January 1997 January 1997

MLA, Am. Poetry & CRL & Northwest St. African-Am. Poetry 71% Universities February 1997 February 1997 Jefferson Working toward equal borrowing and lending rates, March 1997 1997 the OhioLINK program does not “raid” university 20 Million MVNC Reference Searches collections. It works to enrich all its affiliated libraries April 1997 by enabling quick and easy borrowing and lending 1,000,000 between the college and university communities. Online Requests -- Continued -- OhioLINK Snapshot 7 Research Databases OhioLINK’s 2001 Searching Growth Continues “Top Ten”* *Based on % of searches on OhioLINK Despite First Database Reductions main site. Does not include Central Catalog statistics.

1 Electronic Journal Center -- 16.1% 2 Periodical OhioLINK Supports Federal Grant Applications Abstracts -- 14.0% Dr. Brian B. McSpadden Gardner 3 LexisNexis -- 9.3% Department of Plant Pathology 4 PsycINFO -- 7.3% The , OARDC 5 ISI -- 4.4% “Notably, grant and manuscript reviewers for the 6 ABI/Inform -- 4.3% top journals expect researchers to be aware of the most ..., I find OhioLINK 7 ERIC -- 4.3% recent work published in a larger number of an essential tool for 8 MEDLINE -- 4.0% journals...Without the resources provided by obtaining competitive 9 WorldCAT -- 3.2% OhioLINK, I would have to spend two to three times extramural funding 10 SIRS -- 3.2% as much effort to get the same results. For example, from the USDA and this fall I was able to submit two grant applications on NSF. separate subjects partly because of the time saved in doing library research. Those applications will be partcularly competitive, because I was able to include references to work published within one month of the submission deadline. Therefore, I find OhioLINK an essential tool for obtaining competitive extramural funding from the USDA and NSF.”

Research database searching has grown Number of Research Databases steadily as the OhioLINK program has added to its core, statewide database collection. This essential collection con- tinues to be licensed at discounted prices. In 2001, users saw the first decline in database availability. This will continue in 2002 with Ohio’s projected budget. Nonetheless, Ohio higher education users’ need to research topics from anthropology to zoology increased. The program’s quality research databases 2002 Projected are not free resources, but they are necessary to support high quality scholarship and research. 8 OhioLINK Snapshot OhioLINK’s 10-Year Users continue to gain better access while “Top Ten”* seeing more integration between citations, articles, images, and other data *Based on % of searches on OhioLINK types as new information resources are main site. Does not include Central Catalog statistics. added. Many of the citation databases use a single interface, simplifying their use.

1 Periodical Distribution of 6.5 Million Full-Text Documents Downloaded Abstracts -- 18.6% 25,000 2,733,000 2 MEDLINE -- 13.5% Other Sources Electronic Journal Center 3 PsycINFO -- 7.6% 32,000 Digital Art Images 4 LexisNexis -- 6.3% 5 Electronic Journal 71,000 Center -- 4.3% Digital Satellite Images 6 ABI/Inform -- 5.0% 75,000 7 ERIC -- 4.3% Digital Historic Maps 8 WorldCAT -- 4.1% 9 CINAHL -- 4.3% 90,000 E-Books 10 ISI -- 2.8% 200,000 Literature 1,490,000 368,000 LexisNexis Universe SIRS Researcher 1,345,000 General Interest and Business Articles

Research Databases Searches In 1995, the OhioLINK program first delivered full-text general interest articles to users via library print stations. As the presence of the WWW increases and OhioLINK expands full-text resources and desk-top delivery, document down- loads continue to grow. With the OhioLINK program’s diverse collection of full-text resources, 6.5 million documents were downloaded in 2001. This far exceeds the 125,000 (avg.) articles per year that are borrowed through traditional interlibrary loan. OhioLINK Snapshot 9 Central Catalog Research Databases

1997 The Bible in English -- Continued -- June 1997 18th Cen. Eng. Fiction July 1997 Campus Librarian Uses OhioLINK Resources Ursuline STAT-USA to Help Appalachia August 1997 August 1997 Stan Planton Ohio Dominican Head Librarian September 1997 Ohio University - Chillicothe SIRS October 1997 “It’s often said that ‘information is power’,” says Stan Planton. “As information professionals, librarians should be powerful, but frequently ISI (3), Eds. & Adap. we’re identified with arcane pursuits, rather than with dynamic activities of Shakespeare, & that help real people in the real world.” As Head Librarian at Ohio Lexis-Nexis Universe University’s Chillicothe campus, Planton has proven that OhioLINK can November 1997 play a pivotal role in community and regional development. Ilpo Koskikallio, a Finnish economic development expert, read a story English Prose Drama about the collaboration of Planton and a Russian financier in Forbes. The December 1997 two had worked to develop business relationships between Chillicothe and Russia with Planton doing much of OhioLINK databases Washington State & were able to supply a Wittenberg Congressional Universe his research using OhioLINK January 1998 January 1998 resources. Soon, Koskikallio was in piece of information that Chillicothe meeting with local was both relevant and economic development agencies. Hiram timely to an international February 1998 1998 Koskikallio had connections with negotiating session, a 1,500,000 South African businesses, and Elec. Journal Center Planton was soon involved in real ‘war and peace’ Online Requests with Elsevier & multinational negotiations for issue, turning warheads Academic Press housing projects, delivery of April 1998 earthmoving equipment, and wine into peaceful power. 30 Million sales, connecting international Reference Searches companies with local and regional firms. His skill in finding and ABELL, BAL, & managing information – obtained through OhioLINK — was crucial to John Carroll Harpweek these ventures’ eventual success. September 1998 September 1998 Planton and OhioLINK resources became involved in another regional project when the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), 20 Million Bib Records 4,000,000 which produces fuel for commercial nuclear power plants, decided to close Documents Downloaded its Piketon, Ohio, plant, one of the largest employers in Southern Ohio. The plant’s closing would mean economic disaster for thousands of Ashland, Antioch, workers. In an effort to prevent economic calamity in the Piketon area, Athanaeum, Baldwin- Planton used OhioLINK databases to research alternative uses for the Wallace, Bluffton, 1999 plant’s facilities and workers. He provided information to the Governor’s Defiance, Franciscan, office and to others involved in negotiating the plant’s survival. Piketon Heidelberg, Malone, America: History & employees, whose lives would be most affected by plant closure, depended Mt. Carmel College Life, Business & Ind., on him for up-to-date, authoritative information. of Nursing, Mt.Union, Contemporary Planton also tells of receiving a telephone call from the USEC home office. USEC was negotiating on the U.S. government’s behalf with Muskingum, Tiffin, Women’s Issues, Russia. At stake was the delivery of a large quantity of uranium Otterbein, Univ. of Disclosure Global downblended from bombs. The caller asked if Planton had any sources Findlay, Wilberforce, Access, Hist. Abstracts, that might reveal changes in the Russian negotiating position, and indeed Wilmington Soc. Abstracts he did. “OhioLINK databases were able to supply a piece of information January 1999 January 1999 that was both relevant and timely to an international negotiating session, a real ‘war and peace’ issue, turning warheads into peaceful power,” says EJC Project MUSE Planton. March 1999 “Appalachian Ohio is considered a ‘disadvantaged area’ with few 2,000,000 information resources,” says Planton, “And here we are at Ohio University, Online Requests 40 Million with outstanding communication capability and great access to current Reference Searches information, largely due to OhioLINK. When we hear about efforts to improve the area, we have an obligation to help.” -- Continued --

10 OhioLINK Snapshot Electronic Journal Center

Percent of Print Held EJC Unparalleled Success from 26 Major in Expanding Scholarly Journals’ Use Publishers Average Number of Journal Titles Owned Four years of in Print Compared to Average Number expanding access to OSU -- 54% UC -- 40% of Journal Titles Downloaded a growing set of scholarly research CWRU -- 30% journals reflects an insatiable demand OU -- 29.5% for this material. WSU -- 26% Traditionally, Ohio’s MU -- 24.5% major universities hold an average of KSU -- 23% only 25% of the UT -- 20% available scholarly BGSU -- 18% research journals. UA -- 18% Fast Facts CSU -- 16% Total EJC Downloads UD -- 11% • Since 1998: YSU -- 10% 4,812,060 • In 2001: 2,732,920 Number of General/Business and Scholarly Articles Downloaded Given the opportunity for direct, desktop delivery, students and faculty will use, on average, over 80% of the available journals, a much wider range than is available on each campus through individual library purchases. From Ohio’s largest research university to the smallest community college, all institutions have benefited from cooperative purchasing.

OhioLINK Snapshot 11 EJC

With over 4,000 titles, the EJC has more than quadrupled the buying power of Ohio higher education for 17 publishers (commercial and non-commercial) across a wide range of disciplines.

Cumulative Number of Articles Downloaded from Each Publisher

Elsevier ELSEVIER SCIENCE...... 2,780,690 Science ALL OTHER PUBLISH- ERS.....2,031,370 All Others Wiley...... 461,130 Kluwer Academic...... 387,365 Academic Press...... 381,670 American Chemistry Society...220,000 Springer-Verlag...... 190,280 Emerald...... 104,860 Blackwell Publishers...... 90,965 Project MUSE...... 53,910 Blackwell Science...... 49,260 Institute of Physics...... 25,450 American Institute of Physics...25,200 Royal Society of Chemistry...... 19,765 American Physical Society...... 12,580 Thieme...... 9,070 BioOne...... 6,350

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center an Efficient Research Tool Barbara Padgett, M.A. borrowing for the faculty. “One of my bosses just finished a Division of Surgical Research book on the history of the pancreas, and I was able to find Department of Surgery and request books that answered many, many questions for Medical College of Ohio (MCO) him, saving both of us time and effort. I don’t know how we ever functioned as an academic department before OhioLINK! “I would be lost without OhioLINK. I use the It has really transformed my job.” Electronic Journal Center on an almost “I notice, too, that OhioLINK resources are daily basis. It saves me a lot of time and becoming easier to use all the time, making it effort that would be otherwise taken up I use the [OhioLINK] more efficient to find articles,” says Padgett. She by running back and forth to the library Electronic Journal also says that the increasing number of linked to copy articles, and it saves our Center on an almost services has been very helpful. She can now do department considerable money that daily basis. searches on MEDLINE and give her boss the would otherwise be expended in ordering listing of references with abstracts plus a full- reprints,” reports Padgett. text copy of a number of the articles. This allows An employee of MCO for 23 years, she has a variety him to begin working with the full-text material while waiting of assignments, including locating relevant research for the other materials to be delivered.” Padgett says, “...this literature for the faculty. immediate availability has meant that he is using a wider Padgett is also able to retrieve books through online selection of material than ever before.”

12 OhioLINK Snapshot Central Catalog Research Databases

1999 ABC PolSci, Bib. of -- Continued -- Hist. of Art, Chicano DB, FRANCIS, The collection represents a significant core, but GeoRef, GPO, Hand Press Books, Hndbk. many scholarly journals remain beyond our reach. of Latin Am. Studies, With the reduction in higher education funding, Humanities Abs., this unparalleled resource’s progress is in jeapardy Index to For. Legal Periodicals, Index to and future progress is questionable. Hispanic Leg., Index to 19th Cent. Am. EJC Monthly Article Downloads Art Periodicals, Inside Information Plus, OCLC ArticleFirst, OCLC ContentsFirst, OCLC NetFirst, RLIN, Russian Acad. of Sciences Biblio., Union List of Periodi- cals, & World Almanac August 1999 Digital Media Center with Saskia & AMICO, EJC Wiley, EJC Springer-Verlag, EJC Kluwer Academic September 1999 Notre Dame of Ohio October 1999 8,000,000 Documents Downloaded Cincinnati Bible & Jan Feb March April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Marietta December 1999

ITKnowledge & OhioLINK Resources Assist Statehouse Project 2000 MathSciNet Joel Flint January 2000 Researcher and Curator of the Ohio Statehouse Urbana Univ. Ohio Historical Society’s Statehouse Education and Visitor’s Center February 2000 2,500,000 INSPEC & “The Statehouse recently opened a room Online Requests ATLA Religion Within two days, to honor George Washington Williams, the April 2000 I had a copy first African American legislator in Ohio. During the research part of this project, EJC MCB University from OhioLINK when I particularly needed a copy of Press, EJC Royal Franklin’s biography of Williams, all of the Society of Chemistry copies in the various local libraries were checked out. Within two May 2000 days I had a copy from OhioLINK. This service has also been useful EJC Inst. of Physics in a number of other occasions, providing access to materials June 2000 otherwise not accessible locally,” says Flint, “I also used OhioLINK’s AccessScience, DMC Central Catalog to locate biographical information pertaining to Landsat 7, EJC Ohio’s other 71 African American legislators who have served the American Chemical State since Williams. Such information is frequently in disparate Society locations and not easily obtained.” 3,000,000 Online July 2000 Requests -- Continued --

OhioLINK Snapshot 13 Digital Media Center

DMC Expands into Physics and Language Videos and More

Cumulative Number of Art & Architecture Image Downloads OhioLINK delivered its first images through the Digital Media Center (DMC) in August, 1999. It continues to be a pioneer in building statewide multi-media collections with art and architecture images, historic maps, archival materials, and video demon- strations of physics principles and native foreign language speakers. These diverse collections are from both commercial services and submitted from Ohio colleges and universities. The current DMC collections represent the tip of the iceberg. Vast collections held in Ohio’s colleges can benefit Ohioans through electronic access. 2000 2001

Cumulative Number Historic of Satellite Image Downloads Maps Detail of the Ohio State Capitol in 1887. The map is one of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.

History Social Studies

A Corbelled Ballcourt Archway, at Coban, Honduras. The image is A print of the 1900 Wright part of a Mayan archaeology glider drawn by Orville image collection from Oberlin Wright. The print is part of College. the Wright Brothers Collection at Wright State 2000 2001 University 14 OhioLINK Snapshot Central Catalog Research Databases

50 Million 2000 Reference Searches -- Continued -- EJC American Institute of Physics September 2000

CCAD 13,000,000 December 2000 Documents Downloaded

Things to Come in 2002 60 Million 2001 Reference Searches EJC Blackwell Science • Adding new, real-time “chat” reference services and January 2001 other forms of help to OhioLINK resources. EJC Thieme February 2001 • Expanding the Central Catalog to include additional EJC Blackwell Publ., independent colleges. DMC Sanborn Maps March 2001 • Continuing to expand online borrowing into different EJC ACM types of materials, including video tapes and CDs. April 2001 DMC Historic & • Further diversfying the Digital Media Center to include Archival Collections additional archival and video collections from May 2001 participating OhioLINK institutions. DMC Social Studies, EJC BioOne • Expanding electronic books, theses and dissertation September 2001 collections. DMC Physics & Foreign Lang. Videos • Improving off-campus access to all OhioLINK resources November 2001 for all OhioLINK patrons. 70 Million Reference Searches • Improving the website usability and user interface for OhioLINK services. 80 Million 2002 Reference Searches 4,000,000 Online 20,000,000 • Evaluating user needs and perceptions of library services. Requests Documents Downloaded

OhioLINK Governing Board Ex Officio Ronald Crutcher, Miami University Roderick G. W. Chu, Chancellor, Linda Dobb, Bowling Green State University Ohio Board of Regents Paul Gaston, Kent State University Bill Baker, University of Findlay, TAC Terry Hickey, University of Akron Joe Branin, The Ohio State University, LAC Chin Kuo, Cleveland State University Tom Sanville, Executive Director, OhioLINK Perry Moore, Wright State University E. Garrison Walters, Ohio Board of Regents Anthony Perzigian, Fred Pestello, University of Dayton Peggy Peterson, Washington State Comm. College Kristan Collins Runyan, Editor Elaine Pontillo, Stark State College of Technology OhioLINK Update Paul Unger, Owens Community College 2455 North Star Road Duane Wood, Cedarville University Suite 300 Columbus, OH 43221 www.ohiolink.edu (614) 728-3600 [email protected]

OhioLINK Snapshot 15 OhioLINK Institutions KSU Ashtabula Medical College of Ohio Lakeland CC Owens CC Univ. of Toledo Baldwin-Wallace College Northwest Case Western Reserve Univ. State CC Cleveland State Univ. Cuyahoga CC Ursuline John Carroll Univ. College BGSU Notre Dame College KSU Geauga Bowling Green Terra CC Lorain CCC KSU Defiance College State Univ. Firelands Oberlin College Trumbull Hiram College Kent State Heidelberg College Univ. Univ. Tiffin Univ. of Akron NEOUCOM Univ. of Youngstown State Findlay Univ. North College of Central Ashland Wooster Malone College Bluffton College Tech. Univ. OSU ATI/ Mt. Union College KSU Salem Lima Tech. College/ Ohio College/OSU OARDC Stark Tech. College KSU E. Liverpool OSU Lima Northern Mansfield UA Wayne KSU Stark Univ. Marion Tech. College/OSU WSU Lake Marion KSU Franciscan Kenyon College Tuscarawas Univ. of Mt. Vernon Steubenville Nazarene College Jefferson CC Ohio Wesleyan Univ. Central Ohio Tech. Edison Urbana Univ. Capital Univ. College/OSU Muskingum College Columbus Coll. of Art & Design State CC Newark Muskingum Area Belmont Tech. Columbus State CC Clark State CC Denison Univ. Tech. College College Mt. Carmel Coll. of Nursing Witternberg Univ. OU Zanesville OU Eastern Ohio Dominican College Sinclair CC Antioch College Ohio State Univ. Univ. of Cedarville Univ. Otterbein College OU Lancaster Dayton Central State Univ. State Library of Ohio Wright State Univ. Wilberforce Univ. Miami Univ. Wilmington Marietta College MU Hamilton College Washington State CC MU Middletown Hocking OU Chillicothe College Athenaeum of Ohio Ohio Univ. Cincinnati Bible Coll. & Seminary Southern Cincinnati State Tech. & CC State CC College of Mt. St. Joseph UC Clermont Univ. of Cincinnati UC Raymond Walters Xavier University Rio Grande Shawnee Univ. State Univ. & CC

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OhioLINK Benefits Higher Education • Maximizes the utility of Ohio’s • Delivers exceedingly cost-effective academic library collections. access to information. • Dramatically increases information • Increases Ohio’s ability to prepare students access at small and large institutions. and researchers for the information age.