Library Environment

  1. General
    1. Kent State Home Page

    2. Kent State Library Home Page

    3. LMS Administration

    4. The Dean of Libraries reports to the Provost's Office

    5. The University ultimately is governed (and partially funded) by the Ohio Board of Regents

  2. Systems Department
    1. Libraries & Media Services Systems Staff

    2. We work with other technical staff in Information Services

  3. Agencies
    1. State Library of Ohio Statistics on all Ohio libraries. LSTA grant monies. Full government documents collections. State Library of Ohio distributes state government documents. No administrative or regulatory oversite over university libraries.

    2. NCHEMS The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. -- Reporting. Data.

    3. IPEDS The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System of the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Education -- Reporting. Data.

    4. GPO Government Printing Office. Produces and distributes federal government documents. GPO is a federal government agency. Kent State library is a GPO depository library.

    5. LC Library of Congress. Source of cataloging guidelines. Original source of much cataloging..

  4. Consortia / Network
    1. We are a founding member of OhioLINK Services include: shared state-wide union catalog; materials lending state-wide; research database licensing; chat reference service; digital media center....

    2. We are a member of Ohionet the state library technology cooperative. We buy equipment from Ohionet at a discount. Ohionet handles our billing for all OCLC services.

    3. OPLIN Ohio Public Library Information Network. Will share in some statewide research database contracts with OhioLINK.

    4. Infohio Information Network for Ohio Schools. Will share in some statewide research database contracts with OhioLINK.

    5. OLN Ohio Learning Network. Support for distance learning, teacher development. Will cooperate with OhioLINK and OARnet / OSC on some statewide projects for course management systems, etc.

    6. OARnet Internet service provider for Ohio Higher Education

    7. OSC Ohio SuperComputer Center. High-performance computing support for Ohio Higher Education.

  5. Associations
    1. OLC Ohio Library Council. Professional association for Ohio public and school librarians.

    2. ALAO Academic Library Association of Ohio. Professional association for Ohio academic librarians.

    3. ALA American Library Association. National professional association.

    4. ARL Association of Research Libraries. Resources for professional development. Shared best practices. Professional policy development. Improvements and innovation of research libraries. Kent State library is a dues-paying member.

    5. CNI Coalition for Networked Information Kent State University is a charter member. An organization dedicated to improving research and intellectual productivity. Similar to EDUCAUSE.

    6. EDUCAUSE Similar to CNI. Organization dedicated to improving higher education research through technology.

    7. CRL Center for Research Libraries Non-profit consortium that provides rare research materials. Kent State library is a dues-paying member.

  6. Vendors
    1. III Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Vendor for our integrated library system. Same vendor for all OhioLINK members and OhioLINK central catalog.

    2. Docutek Vendor of ERes, our electronic reserves product.

    3. OCLC our largest bibliographic utility. Our largest source of cataloging records. Also supplies Illiad the software we use for interlibrary loan management. Also our vendor for authorities processing.

    4. MARCIVE Provides bibliographic services for government documents.

    5. Pharos vendor of Uniprint our print management application.

    6. YBP Yankee Book Peddler. Our major approval plan vendor.



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