CONSORT Colleges is a term used to refer to the consortium of four academic libraries in Ohio: Denison University

Denison University

Denison University is private, coeducational, and residential college of liberal arts and sciences founded in 1831. It is located in Granville, Ohio, United States, approximately 30 miles east of Columbus, the state capital...

, Kenyon College

Kenyon College

Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...

, Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges...

 and The College of Wooster

The College of Wooster

The College of Wooster is a private liberal arts college primarily known for its Independent study program. It has roughly 2,000 students and is located in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, United States . Founded in 1866 by the Presbyterian church as the University of Wooster, it was from its creation...

. The primary objective of this collaboration is to share the cost of library resources and services including: the CONSORT

Consort

Consort may refer to:Titles:* Queen consort, wife of a reigning king* Prince consort, husband of a reigning queen* King consort, rarely used alternative title for husband of a reigning queen...

 integrated library system

Integrated library system

An integrated library system , also known as a library management system ,is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed....

; CONStor, a high density off-site storage facility; cooperative collection development; library technical services

Library technical services

Library technical services is a term used to describe, in general, the processing and maintenance of a library's physical collection.According to the textbook Introduction to Technical Services , by Evans, Intner, and Weihs, the traditional technical services are:*Identification: locating...

 work flow redesign; and an information literacy

Information literacy

The National Forum on Information Literacy defines information literacy as “...the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.” This is the most common definition; however,...

 tutorial.

The CONSORT Colleges along with Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

 comprise the Five Colleges of Ohio

Five Colleges of Ohio

The Five Colleges of Ohio is an academic consortium of five selective private liberal arts colleges in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a nonprofit educational consortium established in 1995 to promote the broad educational and cultural objectives of its member institutions...

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CONSORT

CONSORT is the name of the combined integrated library system

Integrated library system

An integrated library system , also known as a library management system ,is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed....

 shared by the CONSORT Colleges. The system runs on the Millennium software product developed by Innovative Interfaces, Inc

Innovative Interfaces, Inc

Innovative Interfaces, Inc. is a provider of integrated library system software that is used in 2896 libraries as of September 27, 2011.. The company's software is installed in various types of libraries including academic, public, consortia, school, special libraries, medical libraries and law...

. CONSORT has been a member of OhioLINK

OhioLINK

The Ohio Library and Information Network, OhioLINK, is a consortium of Ohio’s college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Serving more than 600,000 students, faculty, and staff at 88 institutions, OhioLINK’s membership includes 16 public universities, 23 community/technical...

since 1996.