Going online in August of 1998, the Ohio Private Academic Libraries (OPAL) consortium offers more than one million titles and three million individual items to the patrons of 21 Ohio academic libraries. All are also members of OhioLINK, a statewide initiative offering a shared union database and the reciprocal borrowing of over 39 million items amongst 85 libraries in the state.

The members of OPAL are:

• Antioch College
• Athenaeum of Ohio
• Baldwin Wallace College
• Bluffton University
• Columbus College of Art & Design
• Defiance College
• Franciscan University
• Heidelberg College
• Lourdes College
• Malone College
• Mercy College
• Methodist Theological School in Ohio
• Mount Carmel College of Nursing
• Mount Union College
• Muskingum College
• Otterbein College
• Pontifical College Josephinum
• Tiffin University
• Trinity Lutheran Seminary
• University of Findlay
  • Winebrenner Theological Seminary
• Urbana University
• Walsh University
• Wilberforce University
  • Payne Theological Seminary
• Wilmington College

For information on OPAL, contact Matt Polcyn (mattp@ohionet.org) at 614-486-2966, ext. 27.