Statewide Resource Sharing
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- Introduction
- How MORE works (in a nutshell)
- To Join
Introduction
The day has dawned in Ohio where any library user can request an item from any Ohio library and check it out from the user's home library –– whether that home library is a public, school, academic, or special library. The State Library of Ohio has worked to provide the improved version of the MORE program called Ohio Libraries Share: MORE. The new software achieves our goal to provide an highly efficient and effective statewide resource sharing network.
Ohio Libraries Share: MORE enables libraries to provide their patrons more resources, books, music, videos –– any circulating item in a library collection. If a patron searches her own library catalog for an item and comes up short, she can choose to re–execute her search in Ohio Libraries Share: MORE and request the item. The item will be shipped to the home library of the patron for checkout. The patron returns the item to the home library, where it is shipped back to the owning location. From the patron's perspective it's just that easy. For the libraries there are further steps involved in coordinating the request for delivery.
The Ohio Libraries Share: MORE software reduces the amount of staff time requried to participate in a statewide resource sharing circulation system because it is patron–initiated and patron–centered. One of the biggest differences between circulation and interlibrary loan, and the characteristic that drives up the cost for ILL, is mediation. Our intent is to keep staff mediation to a minimum and to reduce it over time as technology enables us to do so.
All of the nitty–gritty details related to circulation (what circulates, who's responsible, circulation policies, etc.) are covered in the Principles of Cooperation, a one–page document established by the original MORE Policies Task Force. The Principles of Cooperation govern the borrowing⁄lending behavior of Ohio Libraries Share:MORE participating libraries
We also direct your attention to the Ohio Libraries Share: MORE Frequently Asked Questions page, which was compiled from conversations with different types of libraries across the state and contains questions related to the nuts and bolts of resource sharing.
Keep reading for information on the pieces that make this project work.
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How MORE works (in a nutshell)
A patron searches her local Web-based catalog for an item. Her library doesn't own it, so she clicks the "OHIO LIBRARIES SHARE MORE" button and searches catalogs across the state. She finds the item, and places a request using her library card (which identifies her as a patron of XYZ Library who is able to make requests). The OHIO LIBRARIES SHARE MORE system identifies libraries that own the item and builds a "lending string," or list of potential lenders. The request is routed sequentially to these potential lenders. The library that has an available copy (that status of copies is "on shelf" or "not on shelf") indicates to the requesting library through the OHIO LIBRARIES SHARE MORE request management system that they will fill the request; they put it in a delivery bag for U.S. Cargo (the delivery vendor), and it is shipped to the requesting library for check out. When the patron returns the item to her home library, it is returned via U.S. Cargo to the owning location. All movement related to the request and the item is tracked through the OHIO LIBRARIES SHARE MORE request management system.
Keep reading for information on the pieces that make this project work.
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To Join
Please follow this link and complete the check list in order to sign up for OLS:MORE.
Also, talk to your automated system vendor about their Z39.50 interface, SIP, and NCIP features.
If you have questions about MORE, please contact the OLS: MORE project staff at the State Library or call the OLS: MORE project staff at (614) 644-6950 or 1800-686-1532.
We look forward to working with you to bring your patrons and students Ohio Libraries Share MORE!
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