This week’s 4cast: 1. Already Sick of Sharing? Social networking is still huge, but as more and more people (and libraries) join in, is the…
OPLIN 4cast #31
Posted in filtering, newspapers, social network websites, and spam
Posted in 4pod, Book trading, and Video on Demand
This week’s OPLIN 4cast Podcast is an interview with Jay Burton from the State Library of Ohio, discussing the Gates-funded Rural Library Sustainability Project (RLS).…
Posted in ASCII, Google Apps, Google News Archive Search, Library 2.0, Mozilla, TraceMonkey, and Ubiquity
This week’s 4cast: 1. Head in the Tag Clouds A tag cloud is a visual way of identifying popular content on any given website through…
Posted in Blue Track, Flickr, Photosynth, and Touchscreens
This week’s 4cast: 1. A Nation of Information Illiterates? According to a recent study, only 13 percent of high school and college students were found…
The topic of this week’s OPLIN 4cast Podcast is spam (the podcast itself is not spam, it’s just about spam). Find out how spammers get…
Posted in Library 2.0, training, and Web 2.0
This week’s 4cast: 1. Internet Librarian 2006: A Big Ol’ Roundup The Internet Librarian 2006 conference was held last week in Monterey, California, and it…
Posted in e-mail, Firefox, instant messaging, and Internet Explorer
This week’s 4cast: 1. Browsers Buffed & Braced for Battle New and improved versions of the two most popular web browsers have just been unleashed.…
Posted in 4pod, Research databases, training, usability, and usage statistics
OPLIN database usage statistics have been steadily declining over the past year. In this week’s OPLIN 4cast Podcast, Don Yarman (OPLIN Library Services Manager) discusses…
Posted in Ask Mobile Search, cellphones, Google Gadgets, Internet, library funding, and OPAC
This week’s 4cast: 1. Libraries Are Both Vital & Vulnerable A recent Florida State University report (funded by ALA and the Gates Foundation) finds that…
Posted in Award for Innovation, cellphones, Google, instant messaging, Library 2.0, Library vs. Internet, privacy, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. OPLIN Award for Innovation: Text Message Notification (Cuyahoga County Public Library) From 2001 to 2005, OPLIN gave an annual Award for…