Here’s something a little different for you. We’ve noticed quite a few stories lately about big tech companies getting into disputes with big countries and…
OPLIN 4cast #417: Battling giants
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Here’s something a little different for you. We’ve noticed quite a few stories lately about big tech companies getting into disputes with big countries and…
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It seems like every day brings news of another major Internet hack, some so huge and cunning that they are blamed on government-sponsored “armies” of…
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How many times have you had a library patron say, “I once read a really good book, it had a red cover with a bicycle…
This may not have much to do with library technology — not yet, anyway — but it’s a cool story nonetheless. Libraries have always been…
A couple of weeks ago, a paper was published on arXiv.org, hosted by the Cornell University Library, regarding a study of how often older scholarly…
We’ve blogged about the Federal Communication Commission’s E-Rate reforms in an earlier 4cast, so you may remember that one of the big changes is a…
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Sometimes new tech ideas that might be of interest to libraries do not happen quickly and make a big splash, but rather slip slowly and quietly…
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At its latest meeting, the OPLIN Board discussed making a substantial financial commitment to protecting OPLIN participants from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS…