Consortia and the Digital Library

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OhioLINKTransforming Information Access in Ohio
Academic Libraries
THE
INFORMATION STRATEGY
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Why the PEZ Strategy?

• Historically Libraries Ration Information
• We are Gatekeepers to limited information
• In The Future Libraries must be Gateways
• We must be Gateways to much more information
  access

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Historical PEZ Strategy
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OhioLINK Future PEZ Strategy
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Ignorance is the mother of admiration. George
Chapman

• Why OhioLINK
• Rationale and Philosophies
• Organization
• Resources
• Services

Few things are harder to put up with than a good
example. Mark Twain
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The OhioLINK spark-

• Mid-1980s --- universities out of stack space
• Too expensive to build more standard stack space
• No effective way to utilize the collections

• Thus were born the five remote storage
• repositories
• and OhioLINK
• a legacy of the original Ohio College
• Library
  Center mission

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Our Goal

• Economically sustainable, increased student and
  faculty access to and use of library provided
  information to support and improve instruction
  and researchas a consortium

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Because

• More information access is required to be
  relevant/successful
• Information resources are proliferating
• Information costs are growing faster than
  individual library budgets
• Libraries remain compelled to buy as much as
  possible
• Individual libraries cannot leverage
  significantly greater access on limited funds
• Libraries DID NOT, DO NOT and WILL NOT have all
  the information resources their patrons need

Learning is like rowing upstream not to advance
is to drop back. Chinese Saying
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Objectives

• To gain Economic leverage
• lowest unit prices, controlled costs
• more information per spent
• increased economic bargaining power
• To gain Information Access leverage
• much, much more access
• To gain Operational leverage
• maximize use of computer investment
• Control, customize, and evolve access to group
  needs

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• 106,765 sq km 35th in US
• Pop 11.5 M 7th in US
• GDP 373 Billion
• lowest pt.132 m
• highest pt. 473 m

E-W 360 km
N-S 370 km
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• MEMBERS
• State Library
• 49 private liberal arts colleges
• 23 public two-year colleges

• 1 standalone medical school (7 total med)
• 2 private universities
• 13 public universities
• Includes 9 law

• 499,000 FTE 130 primary delivery sites

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FTE 499,000

• 97,800 Independent
• 113,300 Two-year
• 33,300 University Brs
• 252,100 University Ms
• 2,500 State Library
• (SLO FTE arbitrary)

• 152,900 2y Ugrad
• 278,700 4y Ugrad
• 11,500 Doctoral
• 4,700 Law
• 44,200 Masters
• 7,000 Medical

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OhioLINK Governance and Advisory Organization
Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents
Advisory Board Provosts. CIOs
Executive Director and staff
Technical Advisory Council
Library Advisory Council 15 U, 3 IC, 3 CC, 2 M, 1
L, 1 SLO
Digital Resources Mgmt
Independent Colleges Library Directors
Coop Information Resources Mgmt
User Services
Community Colleges Library Directors
Inter-Campus Services
Med Lib Directors
Database Mgmt and Standards
Law Lib Directors
Lead Implementers
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OSU Computer Center
OhioLINK Organizational Chart
WSU Admin Agent
7/01/2008
Executive Director
Director - Library Systems
Ast Dir Lib Sys New Service
Office Manager
Sr. Systems Developer
Cap Fund Ast Dir DRC Dev
Ast Dir Lib Sys Computing Networking
Ast Dir Lib Sys User Services
Ast Dir Lib Sys Client/Server Applications
Meta Data Manager
Asst Developerr/ Office Asst
Ast Dir Lib Sys E Licensing
Communications Mgr
Systems Developer
Sr Systems Engineer
Sr Systems Engineer
Systems Developer
Systems Engineer
Cap Fund Systems Developer
PT EJC Serial Check- in Asst
7.5 MLS Librarians --- 7.5 non-MLS Eng/Dev ---
4.5 Admin/Other
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Libraries Connect Ohio Towards the Ohio Web
Library
State Government
Common Information Needs
K-12
Public Libraries
Higher Education
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OhioLINK Central Funding 2 yr budgets

• Capital funds
• FYs 89-92 9.2 million
• FYs 93-94 10.8 million
• FYs 95-96 6.8 million
• FYs 97-98 5.0 million
• FYs 99-00 6.3 million
• FYs 01-02 7.5 million
• FYs 03-04 8.2 million
• FYs 05-06 8.1 million
• FYs 07-08 8.9 million
• FYs 09-10 9.9 million

• Operating Funds
• FYs 90-91 .4 million
• FYs 92-93 1.7 million
• FYs 94-95 4.4 million
• FYs 96-97 8.8 million
• FYs 98-99 11.5 million
• FYs 00-01 14.6 million
• FYs 02-03 14.2 million
• FYs 04-05 13.8 million
• FYs 06-07 13.8 million
• FYs 08-09 14.8 million
• FYs 10-11 ???

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Central Funding pays for

• All central staff and GA expenses
• All central hardware and software systems to
  support statewide services
• All central hardware and software maintenance
• All ILL courier and bag/material costs
• All initial Innovative systems for public
  institutions plus RetroCon and Auth Control
• Continuing III software and maintenance where
  needed for statewide cooperation
• Database license costs in combination with
  library funds

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Leverage the Technology

• Central Catalog - Patron-Initiated borrowing
• Local load of Journal A I databases with common
  interface (and archives)
• Single local site for statewide platforms
• Electronic Journal Center
• Electronic Book Center
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations
• Digital Resource Commons
• Central Federated Subject Cluster searches
• Common Remote User Authentication
• Olinks - journal resolver (home-grown SFX)

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On Site DIGITAL RESOURCE COMMONS Documents Imag
es data audio video

OhioLINK Array of Resources
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
On-site Electronic Journal Center
Vendor images Video audio
Ebsco
Peer reviewed publishing
On-Site CENTRAL CATALOG
Remote Authentication
Institutional images
Institutional
OLinks
documents, videos and audio
On-Site E- Theses Dissert.
On-site E-books full
text literature
Subject Clusters
Chat Reference
E-books vendor systems

On-Site ISI WoS
Web
DBs vendor
systems
On-Site Journal Citation DBs
REFERENCE/ RESEARCH DATABASES
ELECTRONIC BOOKS
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Where does the money to license electronic
content come from in F2007/C2007?
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Cost Effective Purchasing Power

• Costs controlled with expanded 2x-10x rather than
  diminished content
• Costs controlled below market averages

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Content Funding Models

• 100 Central
• Split central/library - multi-database War Chests
  or NPR
• Split central/library single database War
  Chests or NPR
• Mostly library/some central multi or single war
  chest or NPR
• 100 library war chests, NPR, or PTP

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Let others praise ancient times, I am glad I was
born in these. Ovid

• Questions/Discussion