The Clara Fritzsche Library is able to provide service to online students at Notre Dame through the resources of OhioLINK, a consortium of 88 Ohio college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Once you have set up borrowing privileges by submitting a completed Library Circulation Agreement, available here, the library will provide you with a special borrower card for use at other OhioLINK libraries and on the OhioLINK website.
You may either request material from the OhioLINK Library Catalog (see below) or borrow directly from the OhioLINK library nearest you. Use the following resources to check your patron record, identify OhioLINK libraries, locate and request materials, and access online resources such as full-text journal articles:
Your patron record at Notre Dame College
OhioLINK Member Libraries
OhioLINK Library Catalog
OhioLINK Databases
The Electronic Journal Center
For more detailed information, consult the library reference sheets below:
Online Library Instruction Checklist
Online Student Welcome Sheet
Special Notice For Online Students Residing Outside Ohio
While electronic resources are available to you through the OhioLINK website at this time the Notre Dame College Library is unable to provide circulation services beyond Ohio state lines. You will need to access print materials on your own, through whatever library resources are available to you in your local area. We offer the following suggestions for locating and/or accessing material without the need to travel to Ohio:
- OhioLINK Electronic Book Center –contains thousands of scholarly and reference e-books in several subject areas, accessible by keyword search and by title-browsing within subject area. Connect to this resource from the OhioLINK home page or by navigating to www.ebooks.ohiolink.edu
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WorldCat.org – this publicly-accessible version of the WorldCat bibliographic database has a simple search interface and can list the libraries that own a book by their distance from the ZIP code you enter.
(NOTE: this is a relatively new resource and may not provide complete information; compare to listings in the WorldCat database accessible through OhioLINK.) Connect to this resource at www.worldcat.org/ or to the scholarly version using your NDC patron account.
