Nedda Ahmed, Denison University

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Collaborating Across the State
OhioLINKsArt and ArchitectureSubject Group

• Nedda Ahmed, Denison University

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Overview of Activities

• Meeting August, 2004
• Not Bought In Ohio Projects
• Yankee Book Peddler
• Worldwide Books (exhibition catalogs)
• ArtStor Training
• Journal Coverage for Titles in Art Abstracts

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Not Bought in Ohio Project Yankee Book Peddler

• YBP developed a mechanism within the GOBI system
  to track books not purchased within Ohio
• Lists can be created, stored/saved, and reviewed
  for purchase
• Art/Arch. Group members review NB lists make
  purchases

Is the OhioLINK collection as broad as it should
be?
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Whats In YBP Books Not Bought?

• Monthly lists titles not bought 6 months ago
• About 25 titles per list

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Not Bought in Ohio Project Worldwide Books

• Foreign publications, museum publicationsmany
  presses not covered by YBP
• 6 OhioLINK Libraries have approval plans w/ WWB
• WWB set up a fund code for un-bought items
  Art/Arch. Group members can use the fund code to
  create lists in particular areas

Is the OhioLINK collection as broad as it should
be?
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Whats In WWB Books Not Bought?

• Search Parameters
• Not Bought
• Region African
• Language of Text English
• YIELD 18 results

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ARTstor Training

• November 4, 2004
• Denison University

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Journal Coverage for Titles in Art Abstracts

• Reviewing periodical holdings to ensure coverage
  of titles indexed in AA.
• 876 Titles total (not all current).
• Students at U. Cincinnati will be working on this
  project.

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Future Projects

• Better coverage of foreign titles
• Work with OP book dealers to expand acquisition
  of important OP materials
• Expand coverage of non-western art
• Consider ways to develop special loans of our
  specialized collections
• Cooperative collection development of artists
  books
• Digital projects for the OhioLINK DMC