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 24 Ohio academic libraries. All are also members of OhioLINK, a statewide initiative offering a shared union database and the reciprocal borrowing of over 46 million items amongst 87 libraries in the state.

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The members of OPAL are:

• Antioch University
• Athenaeum of Ohio
• Baldwin Wallace College
• Bluffton University
• Columbus College of Art & Design
• Defiance College
• Franciscan University
• Heidelberg University
• Lourdes College
• Malone University
• Mercy College
• Methodist Theological School in Ohio
• Mount Carmel College of Nursing
• Mount Union College
• Muskingum University
• 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.