Be warned, this post is a little heavier on technical jargon than our usual posts because it’s about an emerging technology, called Thunderbolt, that you…
OPLIN 4Cast #268: Thunderbolt is coming
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Be warned, this post is a little heavier on technical jargon than our usual posts because it’s about an emerging technology, called Thunderbolt, that you…
Surely you’ve heard about QR codes by now, and maybe your library is even exploring ways to put them to good use. Public libraries don’t seem…
One of the nifty things about ebooks is their ability to transcend plain text. Illustrations and graphic design have always been recognized as an important…
Malicious attacks on websites continue to make the news. Whether it’s Anonymous exposing a whole country’s control and data systems or hackers stealing huge amounts of…
Almost everybody would agree that 2011 was the year of the ebook, when they captured about 20% of all fiction sales. Almost everybody in the…
You may recall from an earlier 4cast that the law suit against the Google Books project had its ups and downs last year. It looks like…
If your library maintains a website (and we really, really hope you actually work on maintaining your website!), it’s often handy to know how that…
It’s been about six months since we’ve done a 4cast post specifically about mobile computing, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about it. OPLIN has…
We all know that the Internet contains an abundance of misinformation. Librarians often spend a lot of time explaining to their patrons that you can’t…