Late in the afternoon on Black Friday, the oplin.org website was hit by an apparent Denial of Service (DoS) attack. DoS and DDoS (Distributed Denial of…
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Adobe Flash animation was the “hot” website design tool for a while, cropping up on all sorts of websites (including library websites), despite concerns about…
OPLIN 4Cast #256: Google changes
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Like it or not, librarians use Google searching quite often in the course of their workday. While the authority of information gathered from Google is…
OPLIN 4Cast #255: WiFi woes
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If you’ve stayed at a hotel recently – say for the Ohio Library Council Convention – you may have experienced wireless Internet service that was…well,…
OPLIN 4Cast #254: Paying for content
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Newspaper and magazine publishers share a common problem with libraries: how do you convince people (or government officials and administrators in the case of libraries)…
OPLIN 4Cast #252: Ebook piracy
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Occasionally, the topic of ebook piracy generates some press, though not as often as you might expect. Last spring, for example, there was a flurry…
Readers’ advisory has long been an important component of the librarian’s job. People coming to libraries expect the librarian to be able to recommend a…
OPLIN 4Cast #250: Truth and YouTube
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Once again this week, there was big news affecting the ebook business (launch of the Kindle Fire), but since you’ve certainly already been bombarded with…
In the middle of last week’s excitement about public library books for the Kindle, the Aptara Corporation released their Third Annual eBook Survey of Publishers (40-page…