NoveList from OPLIN ends June 30

At the OPLIN Stakeholders Meeting on September 12, we regretfully announced that the statewide OPLIN subscription to EBSCO NoveList will be canceled when our current contract ends on June 30, 2009.

The OPLIN budget has been cut 14.7% in the last 9 months. In our next fiscal year (starting July 2009) we simply cannot afford to purchase NoveList any longer. We are well aware of the popularity of this database, and this decision was not taken lightly. NoveList is our only remaining database purchase that is not part of our partnership with Libraries Connect Ohio (OhioLINK, INFOhio, State Library); our only other choice would be to start cutting our contributions toward the cost of the general EBSCO databases or our general encyclopedia (World Book), which would jeopardize the heart of the LCO collection.

OPLIN and the State Library are looking into alternative readers advisory tools, and OPLIN has met with EBSCO and OHIONET to see if Ohio public libraries can get deep discounts on purchases of NoveList. We will immediately inform you of any developments in regard to NoveList discounts.