1. The Homebrew Option Issues With Locally Developed Resolvers October 29, 2003 Thomas Dowling tdowling @ ohiolink.edu

2. Two OhioLINK Services You Should Know Locally loaded databases Locally loaded electronic journals Citation linking, 1998-2001

3. Why We Did It Concern Over Consortial Features Budget Preference for toolkits over off-the-shelf products

4. The Upside Total customizability Ability to work with/around pre-existing tool Ability to use open-source tools, go open- source with result

5. The Non-Upside No pre-packaged holdings database Limited testing opportunities (e.g. for OpenURL 1.0 support) Red Queen Effect

6. Maintaining the Knowledgebase Central consortium titles Local library titles Intra-consortium cooperation

7. What It Takes To Go Homebrew Software is not hard Administrative control over holdings is critical