The Accessibility Implementation Team (ACCIT) acts on digital accessibility remediation and support requests in conjunction with appropriate local staff and the OhioLINK central office to ensure that OhioLINK’s shared e-resources are available to all. The Team is also responsible for communicating information about accessibility as it relates to OhioLINK shared collections and services to relevant local staff.
The All Directors group includes the Deans & Directors for all OhioLINK member libraries.
This roster lists the contact person from each institution who is charged both with receiving error reports about records that institution owns, and with sending error reports after determining the owning library.
CIRM focuses on cooperative resource management issues, both electronic and print, and recommends new policies and procedures. CIRM makes recommendations to the Library Advisory Council on renewals of existing resources and acquisition of new resources for OhioLINK. The policy team is responsible for the assessment and analysis of membership‐wide resources using the appropriate metrics, including deselection and recommendations for management of purchased shared content in OhioLINK locally loaded platforms.
DIAD focuses on metadata as it relates to integration between shared systems and local systems, authority work, database integrity and impact of displays and searching of metadata on end users in shared or integrated systems. Responsible, as appropriate, for evaluating OhioLINK central and contributing ILS/LMS systems as they relate to managing shared metadata.
The function of the E‐Resource implementation team is to act on decisions made by CIRM in terms of packages, titles, etc. and to respond to CIRM and OhioLINK requests for data (usage, budget, title lists, etc.) to support negotiations and shared resource analysis.
The ILL roster includes contacts at each OhioLINK member library and details about each library's policy for rush requests.
ICS recommends policies and procedures for statewide resource sharing and coordinates OhioLINK circulation among local sites and between local and the central site. The committee also oversees document delivery systems for all types of materials including books, media, and journal articles. The members serving on the ICS team come from library backgrounds in the area of circulation and inter-library loan.
Lead Implementers are the primary technical contacts for OhioLINK member libraries. Leads have overall responsibility for maintaining OhioLINK policies and procedures on local Innovative systems. They meet to share information and to participate in ongoing training opportunities.
LAC reviews and approves all policies for carrying out the OhioLINK program as proposed by the three standing committees. Discusses and approves major funding measures. Participates in strategic planning. Consists of library directors from all public universities (including two private universities), and representatives from independent and two year colleges.
The function of the PCIRC team is to act on decisions made by ICS in terms of print borrowing between OhioLINK member libraries, including annual reconciliation, monitoring courier service, among other print lending activities.
The Regional Depositories Coordinating Council is a smaller team within the Regional Depositories Governing Council that coordinates planning and activities among the five high-density depositories including budget oversight, facilities, capital projects and staffing.
The Regional Depositories Governing Council is responsible for depository project oversight and for
developing the guidelines for access to depository collections by all OhioLINK members.
