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Investing in Ohio's Students and Future Snapshot 2002 Investing in Ohio’s Students and Future “OhioLINK is probably the single best reason for studying and teaching in Ohio.” --Stephen L. Harp, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Akron Completing 10 Years 1992 - 2002 $$$ and Sense Nationally Renowned Program’s Progress Still Hampered by Ohio Budget The OhioLINK current and expected Where Do OhioLINK Expenses Go? operating budgets are not only curtailing new initiatives, but are also eliminating funding for currently provided information resources. With the latest 2.5% reduction announced January 2003, the OhioLINK F2003 operating budget is 8.4%- $640,300-below the F2001 level. OhioLINK-funded database licenses have been reduced. These expenses have been transferred to the libraries across the state, or database access lost. With library budgets also being reduced, the impact of OhioLINK’s budget reductions F2003 Projected is doubly felt. Funding is not expected to increase in F2004/F2005, requiring further reductions. The OhioLINK capital budget for F2003-F2004 is sufficient to maintain F1992F1993F1994F1995F1996F1997F1998F1999F2000F2001F2002F2003 current capital-funded initiatives, but OhioLINK Growth in Services growth opportunities will be limited. Delivered Versus Growth in Budget The OhioLINK program has proven increasingly effective. Total annual 2002 Activity Levels funding in 2002 was only 83% more than Indexed to 1994. in 1994, while the number of delivered services and libraries served has grown dramatically. But, with budget cuts, the percentage of expenditures in content delivery decreased for the first time in 2002, from a peak of 75% in 2001, to 73%. Completing the tenth year of operations, the OhioLINK program has proven that cooperation and statewide Combined Capital licensing of information resources not and Operating Budget 2 OhioLINK Snapshot But It Also Takes Library Funds OhioLINK Milestones Central Catalog Electronic Journal Center (EJC) Research Databases • Total cost of OhioLINK EJC content 1992 in 2002 $ 19.4 Million Central Catalog Live 2 Databases Added • Cost of EJC funded by OhioLINK $ 3.7 Million November 1992 • Cost of EJC funded by Libraries $ 15.7 Million • Average percent of EJC titles held 1993 1 Database Added in print by Ohio universities 25% • Estimated cost to duplicate the EJC in print at universities $ 77.6 Million 1994 Online Borrowing begins 20 Institutions Joined 16 Databases Added Reference Databases / General & Business Journals 5 Million Bib Records 1,000,000 • F2002 OhioLINK statewide Reference Searches license costs $ 3.1 Million • F2002 Cost of comparable access 1995 if licensed by individual libraries $ 9.7 Million 10 Million Bib Records 14 Institutions Joined 11 Databases Added Controlling Costs 15 Million Bib Records 10 Million Reference Searches Average Annual Journal Cost Increase for Typical Academic Research College Library Average Annual Cost Increase for Journals Licensed through OhioLINK 1996 12 Institutions Joined 16 Databases Added 7.7% 8.0% 8.0% 6.1% 500,000 Online Requests 4.5% 3.9% 1997 2001 vs. 2000 2002 vs. 2001 2003 vs. 2002 CRL Joined February 1997 only reduce the rate of increase in library costs 7 Institutions Joined 14 Databases Added but also extend the buying power of the individual 1,000,000 20 Million library budget. Large universities can buy more Online Requests Reference Searches research materials and small institutions gain access to resources formerly beyond their means. 1998 With higher education funding under 4 Institutions Joined 4 Databases Added pressure, the combination of healthy college and 1,500,000 30 Million university library budgets and the OhioLINK Online Requests Reference Searches program budget maximizes statewide purchasing Elec. Journal Center power and information resource availability. Access Live with 2 Publishers to the OhioLINK provided resources that cover the April 1998 breadth of available scholarship is essential to support 20 Million Bib Records 4,000,000 Documents Downloaded efforts to create a robust 21st-century Ohio economy. OhioLINK Snapshot 3 Central Catalog Research Databases 1999 20 Institutions Joined 26 Databases Added Service Improvements 2,000,000 40 Million Online Requests Reference Searches Digital Media Center Live with 2 More Resources, More Access Collections September 1999 OhioLINK’s tenth year illustrated a continuing 4 EJC Publishers commitment to improvement with the addition of Added new resources and services. 8,000,000 The Digital Media Center contains several Documents Downloaded new collections. Greek and Latin “squeeze” images, from The Center for Epigraphical and 2000 Paleographical Studies at The Ohio State 2 Institutions Joined 5 Databases Added University, are now available. Users can also search and download selections from the E. W. Scripps 2,500,000 50 Million Archive at Ohio University. The DMC’s Foreign Online Requests Reference Searches Language Videos database has diversified with the 5 EJC Publishers addition of four new language collections. A total Added of seven foreign languages are now represented. 1 DMC Collection In another program first, OhioLINK licensed a Added 3,000,000 Online 13,000,000 set of core databases with INFOhio, the K-12 library Requests Documents Downloaded program; and OPLIN, the Ohio Public Library Information Network. This set of Ebsco Publishing databases are now available to all Ohioans. 2001 OhioLINK users also gained additional 60 Million reference services. The Subject Cluster Search Reference Searches delivers, with a single search, results from a core 5 EJC Publishers of subject-specific databases, and “Chat with a Added Librarian” delivers live reference help via an online 5 DMC Collections Added chat link. 70 Million As the world of e-books continues to evolve, Reference Searches so does OhioLINK’s collection. In the summer of 2002, OhioLINK added Books 24 x 7 to fill the 2002 need for high-demand IT manuals. 4,000,000 Online 80 Million OLinks, a linking service that dramatically Requests Reference Searches increases the number of links between citations 3 EJC Publishers in the research databases and the relevant full- 4 Institutions Joined Added text articles, also debuted this year. 24 Million Bib 25 Million Four institutions, Cleveland Clinic College Records Documents Downloaded of Medicine, Franklin University, Lourdes College, and Myers University, joined OhioLINK in 2002. These new additions bring the total number of participating institutions to 83. 4 OhioLINK Snapshot E-Books First Electronic Books See Heavy Use The OhioLINK program is a leader in expanding information access through netLibrary E-Book Availability and Usage the emergence of electronic books. Growing use of a diverse collection of 14,000+ titles already demonstrates the users’ strong desire to select and use e-books. The collection is expanding slowly due to 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. Fast Facts: E-Books Cumulative 2002 Heaviest Use Per Title 1078 671 Median Use Per Title 8 5 Average Uses Per Title 14.3 8.9 OhioLINK Supports Students and Faculty Use of Older Collections Stephen L. Harp I have written two monographs and am researching a Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History third, any one of which would have been hard to pull off University of Akron without OhioLINK. Both my undergraduate and graduate students consider the system a lifeline, filling in “OhioLINK is probably the single best reason for all of the holes in our own studying and teaching in Ohio. Few states have ...My single biggest collection. Although our anything even remotely comparable. fear in leaving the interlibrary loan staff is In an older, densely populated state like ours, University of Akron absolutely superb, it would be OhioLINK makes it possible to use the older and moving to another impossible for them to order collections of Case Western Reserve University, and state is that of giving and process the large volume the liberal arts colleges, as well as the newer research up ‘my’ OhioLINK of books that we all now use collections at The Ohio State University and the through OhioLINK. As both regional state universities. The University of Dayton a teacher and a scholar, my has a virtual stranglehold on Catholic publications, single biggest fear in leaving the University of Akron and Bowling Green State University on popular culture, moving to another state is that of giving up ‘my’ and the University of Akron on rubber and industry. OhioLINK.” OhioLINK Snapshot 5 Central Catalog Central Catalog Continues Providing Increased Book Collection Utility The size and diversity of the OhioLINK Number of Bibliographic Records Central Catalog continues to demonstrate a high level of book utilization. Now it is in the Central Catalog also increasing access to audio and video materials. This benefit is clearly seen as online borrowing showed even stronger growth in 2002. Some of this growth in resource sharing may be the result of decreasing book buying as library budgets tighten. The value of the OhioLINK central catalog is dependent on continued additions of new titles that can be shared across the state. Undergraduates continue to account for a greater percentage of overall activity. Traditionally, undergraduates rarely used inter-library loan (ILL). Their use of online borrowing is a special Online Patron Borrowing by Patron Type program achievement.
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