Today we are going to ignore all the news items about WikiLeaks and Google eBooks and look instead at movies. It’s been a while (4cast…
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We often may think of e-books as a variation of print books, only with the words delivered to an e-book reader rather than impressed on…
Information retrieval is basic to librarianship, of course, so now and then the OPLIN 4cast highlights recent developments in online information searching. Lately there have…
With the holiday shopping season upon us, many people will be buying e-book readers for themselves or as gifts. Some industry forecasts predict as many…
OPLIN 4Cast #204: Locking down WiFi
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Up until now, many public libraries have not been too concerned with the security of their public wireless networks. Libraries, after all, are open to…
What looked like a perfect relationship a couple of months ago may have hit a rough patch. The iPad seemed then to be the device…
OPLIN 4Cast #202: The Business of Bots
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Now that we’ve left Cybersecurity Awareness Month behind us (October, but you might not have seen it on your calendar) as well as the barrage…
OPLIN 4Cast #201: SMS Engagement
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A couple of weeks ago, OPLIN made a change to our SMS messaging service that enabled us to not only send messages from libraries to…
OPLIN 4Cast #200: E-book Developments
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We’ve done three OPLIN 4cast posts about e-books in the last six months, and this one makes four. We try to mix our topics and…
OPLIN 4Cast #199: Check-in Apps
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Do you have patrons who may be interested in checking in to your library as well as checking out library items? Perhaps you do, but…