For KSU owned general circulating materials, the item loans wer transferred into the new system with a due date of August 1. OhioLINK materials will remain on the old system until they are due on August 1 and then be returned on the old system and/or rechecked out on the new system.

Items returned during the freeze were checked in on or after June 23 and should no longer be reflected on you library record. Please contact us if you have questions regarding your library record.

Yes! In fact, when trying to decide on a name it occurred to us that the most pragmatic thing to do is give the system a name that genuinely reflects what it does. Therefore, we present to you, LIBRARYsearch.

OhioLINK will remain branded as is although their catalog will no longer exist as we know it now so users won't be required to go "search OhioLINK."

Yes, if you have direct KentLINK catalog links to books or other materials, those links will need to be updated everywhere since KentLINK will be going offline. You will need to do individual title searches in the new system and copy the "share" links to update the links wherever you have them.

No, the new system uses the familiar Kent State Single Sign-on so you will continue to use your Kent State University Flashline username and password.

Search Ohio is currently in a lending freeze while they also transition to a new consortial lending platform. You may be asked to return Search Ohio items in order to facilitate the implementation of this new system. We expect Search Ohio lending to resume some time early this fall.