OhioLINK:

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OhioLINK The Ohio Library and Information
Network
Anita Cook Director of Library Systems
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Who are we?

• Consortium of 85 Academic Institutions and
• the State Library of Ohio
• 15 public and research universities, 2 stand
• alone medical schools, 23 community and
• technical colleges, 44 private colleges and
• universities, and the State Library all in
  Ohio
• 2 public libraries participate in INN-Reach

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Population 11,353,140 (2002) Square Km
116,103 600,000 fte college students The
Buckeye State
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A brief history

• OhioLINK was formed in the mid-1980s to create
• an RFP to build a state-wide system for
  sharing
• library resources.
• The RFP was issued in 1988 and eight respondents
• were evaluated in 1989. A contract with
• Innovative Interfaces, Inc. was signed in 1990

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Why Innovative?

• No vendor in existence could come close to
• meeting the requirements of the RFP
• Needed an entrepreneurial partner to develop
• the type of unique model that had been defined
• by the RFP
• The vendor needed to be eager to go where no
• vendor had gone before
• Innovative best fit our requirements

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The OhioLINK Model
Local System
Local System
Central Catalog
Local System
Local System
Local System
Local System
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Building Ohiolink

• Built the system from the ground up
• By November 1992, we had installed Innovative
  systems
• at six universities
• These six had contributed records to create our
  first
• version of the central catalog
• By January 1995, all of the universities were
  participating
• as well as the first of the community colleges

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The Birth of Online Borrowing

• Besides the building of the central catalog,
  Patron Initiated
• Online Borrowing had always been a top
  priority
• The goal was to build a system of sharing
  resources that
• patrons would find easy and intuitive
• Working in partnership with Innovative, we
  achieved this
• goal and then some!
• This is the system that Innovative now calls
  INN-Reach

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Main Features of INN-Reach

• Any patron from one OhioLINK institution can
  borrow materials from another
• The lending and borrowing functions are automatic
  and part of the software
• Patrons can delivery to any delivery site in the
  state
• Patrons can check out materials out directly at
  any participating OhioLINK institution and return
  them to any site
• Patrons call this ohiolinking a book

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How Does Online Borrowing Work?
Patron requests item on central catalog
Verifies patron Against home Library database
System determines availability of item
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What happens next?
Local System verifies patron
Central Site
Maps local patron type to central patron type
Sends patron data to central
Determines which copy
Acknowledges patron
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Behind the scenes.
Patrons System Central System Owners System
Creates a virtual patron record
Central site sends data to local systems
Creates a virtual Item record
Queues the request in a paging slip file
The owner of the item prints paging slip and
retrieves book
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Getting the item to the patron
Patrons System Owners System
Check out to patrons system and send item
Receive item notify patron
Check out to patron
Check in from patron
Check in
Return item to owning system
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OhioLINKs Other Venues

• Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
• (started in 1998)
• -- 7,000 titles
• -- 456,000 issues
• -- 8.7 million articles

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Digital Media Center

• 73,000 art images
• 40,000 historic maps
• 26,000 audio files
• 10,000 photographs
• 2800 video files
• 250 satellite images of Ohio
• Animations, squeezes, historic documents, etc.

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Electronic Book Center

• 4 Major Publishers Currently
• Springer (6,000)
• Oxford (2,000)
• ABC-CLIO (500)
• Chadwyck-Healy (literature collections)

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations

• 12,000 documents from 18 institutions
• Software built in house and includes a
• submittal and approval process

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OhioLINK Organizational Chart
As of 7/1/2007
Executive Director
Director - Library Systems
Commun- ications Manager
Office Manager
Ast Dir Lib Sys Database Management
Ast Dir Lib Sys DRC Development
Ast Dir Lib Sys Computing Networking
Ast Dir Lib Sys User Services
Ast Dir Lib Sys Client/Server Applications
Sr. Systems Developer
PT Office Assistant
PT EJC Serial Check- in Asst
Sr Systems Engineer
Sr Systems Engineer
Systems Developer
Systems Engineer
Systems Developer
OBR Grant Systems Developer
Asst Director Strategic Directions
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Questions?
Anita Cook
OhioLINK
Anita_at_ohiolink.edu