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Check out the Fall (October) edition of The OPLIN Circuit.
The OPLIN 2012 Stakeholders Meeting took place on Friday, September 7, in conjunction with the OLC Expo in Columbus. OPLIN Director Stephen Hedges spoke about developments over the past year in addition to plans for network and other services in the upcoming year. For those not able to attend in person, this session was also broadcast as a live webcast (audio and video).
We have included links below for all available materials.
OhioLINK is in the final stages of migrating all of the content from their Digital Media Center (DMC) into their Digital Resource Commons (DRC). This content includes two statewide databases: the ART Collection and the Sanborn maps. On August 15th the DRC will be the official platform for these collections, and at the end of the month, the DMC will be decommissioned.
If you are using the OPLIN "shortcuts" to these databases ( [ http://www.oplin.org/art or http://www.ohioweblibrary.org/art ] and [ http://www.oplin.org/sanborn or http://www.ohioweblibrary.org/sanborn ] ), then you don't need to do anything. OPLIN has already changed those links to point to the DRC.
This year's OPLIN Stakeholders Meeting will take place at 9:00 am on Friday, September 7 in conjunction with the OLC Expo. OPLIN Director Stephen Hedges will talk about the past year's developments and where the OPLIN network and content services are heading in the coming year, and OPLIN staff will be available for questions. For people not able to attend in person, this session will also be broadcast as a live webcast (audio and video), but registration through OPLIN is required to access the webcast (limit: 98 registrants).
Check out the Summer (July) edition of The OPLIN Circuit.
Every couple of months a public library computer becomes compromised by malware and begins using the OPLIN mail server to send large amounts of spam. Usually this has no lasting effect beyond mail flow being disrupted for a few hours while we wait for deferments to clear, but those few hours are an inconvenience for everyone.
In an effort to tighten security, we are going to modify the configuration of the OPLIN mail server so that SMTP authentication is required beginning next Wednesday, June 6. (Authentication is already supported, just not required.) If you get your email through the OPLIN mail server and have set up your desktop mail client (Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, etc.) within the last year, the client probably opted to use authentication automatically, and you should not notice any change. Also, if you use the OPLIN webmail interface at http://mail.oplin.org, this change does not apply to you. This change only affects people who get their email through the OPLIN server and have been using their desktop mail client for more than a year.
Check out the Spring (April) edition of The OPLIN Circuit.
Check out the Winter (January) edition of The OPLIN Circuit.
For the last 8 years or so, OPLIN has been tracking usage of the Ohio Web Library databases by individual libraries in the OPLIN Database Usage Reporting Tool (ODURT) at http://oplin.org/odurt. As of the end of 2011, however, these usage reports will no longer be updated.