This week’s 4cast: 1. Technology Trumps “Traditional Librarianship” Library of Congress employees who don’t want to learn new technology skills are being offered incentives to…
Month: August 2006
OPLIN 4cast #19
Posted in AJAX, Blogger, BookMooch, DMCA, DRM, DVDs, and Windows Live Writer
This week’s 4cast: 1. You Don’t Know AJAX? Does your website feel sluggish and uncooperative? Maybe it needs some AJAX (short for Asynchronous JavaScript and…
OPLIN 4cast Podcast #3: Next Generation OPAC
Posted in 4pod, Library 2.0, OPAC, and Web 2.0
This week’s OPLIN 4cast Podcast takes a look at the next-generation library catalog. Librarians are just beginning to have wide-ranging discussions about what’s wrong with…
This week’s 4cast: 1. The WorldCat’s Meow In their ongoing effort to make library materials easier for the general public to find, OCLC recently unveiled…
OPLIN 4cast #17
Posted in Google, Library 2.0, productivity, web TV, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. Primetime @ the Library? As more and more viewers flock to YouTube and other websites offering increasingly television-like experiences, how long…
The second OPLIN 4cast Podcast examines the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prevents libraries from digitally distributing popular audio and video titles through their…
OPLIN 4cast #16
Posted in DOPA, eBooks, net neutrality, and OPAC
This week’s 4cast: 1. The Straight Dope on DOPA The House of Representatives recently passed a bill called the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) by…