This week’s 4cast: 1. Amazon’s Kindle Starts a Fire The Kindle (Amazon’s new wireless, handheld eBook device) was released this week, followed by lots and…
The OPLIN 4cast Posts
Every August and September, OPLIN gathers some basic information from Ohio public libraries about their use of the Internet. This information is then combined with…
4cast #76: Digitization, Experimentation, Comcast, Fines
Posted in Add new tag, digitization, Google Shared Storage, Library 2.0, library fines, neoK12, net neutrality, and OperaUnite
This week’s 4cast: 1. Your Scanners Are Not Welcome Here Several influential research libraries have spurned offers to join Google and Microsoft’s mass digitization projects.…
4cast #75: Plugins, Copyright, Taxes, Biblioblogs
Posted in BlindSearch, blogs, copyright, Firefox, Google, URL shorteners, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. Plug Your Catalog into Firefox A plugin is a small computer program that adds a specific, sometimes rather nifty, function to…
OPLIN’s annual Stakeholders Meeting will be held tomorrow (Wednesday, October 10th) at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Like last year’s meeting, this one will kick…
OPLIN 4cast #74
Posted in Library 2.0, NORWELD, Pixlr, Tweetmeme, and Web 2.0
This week’s 4cast: 1. Technology’s Elusive Rewards So your library spends plenty of time researching, testing, and implementing new technology, but the results are never…