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The Ohio Web Library now has a new website, http://ohioweblibrary.org. If you are still using an outdated version of Internet Explorer, you may need to update your browser to see the new site.

A lot of changes have been made to the software that runs the site, so it now runs faster and provides a cleaner list of search results. We also have more control over the weighting of search results, which means we can put some custom links at the top of the list when someone does a common search. (Try a search for "legal forms" for example.)

The annual meeting of the OPLIN Content Advisory Committee will take place at the OPLIN office on Wednesday, February 19 at 1:30 PM.

Check out the Winter (January) edition of The OPLIN Circuit.

• Digitization hub information
• New Website Kits and upgrades
• Ohio Web Library updates
• Database tutorials available
• Other reminders and news

Four Ohio libraries collaborate to digitally preserve and enhance access to historical documents, photographs and other culturally significant materials

Check out the Fall (October) edition of The OPLIN Circuit.

• OPLIN network testing service for libraries
• New Sanborn Maps interface launch
• LearningExpress Workforce Skills available
• 2013 Stakeholders Meeting information
• Upcoming E-Rate workshop fall schedule

The 2013 Stakeholders Meeting,  our annual report to Ohio public libraries (our "stakeholders"), will take place on Wednesday, October 9 from 1:15 – 2:15 p.m. at the Ohio Library Council's Convention and Expo held at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Sandusky, Ohio. OPLIN staff will review what has happened over the past year and take a peek at the future.

To make it easier to link directly to the Ohio Web Library resources, OPLIN has for some time provided a list of "shortcut" links that libraries can embed in their webpage or easily share with patrons. This list is posted on ourHow to link to the OPLIN resources and Ohio Web Library databases page. We recently added links to all the various EBSCO databases.

Libraries Connect Ohio, the statewide partnership of the OhioLINK, INFOhio, and OPLIN library networks and the State Library of Ohio, is pleased to announce that its collection of Sanborn Insurance Maps has moved to a new home: http://ohioweblibrary.org/sanborn.

While OPLIN's responsibility for Internet connection management ends with the OPLIN router placed at the library end of OPLIN-provided circuits, it is not uncommon for libraries to have internal network issues that affect the throughput capacity of their Internet connection. These problems sometimes come to light in conversations with libraries or in the course of monitoring OPLIN network performance, and over the years OPLIN staff have more and more frequently assisted local library IT staff with some problem solving.

The State Library of Ohio has awarded a $1.6 million federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) LSTA grant to Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO) to support the purchase of statewide resources in the Ohio Web Library collection for the next fiscal year (July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014). The Libraries Connect Ohio committee, composed of members from INFOhio, OhioLINK, OPLIN, and the State Library, negotiated with vendors for the next five years of Ohio Web Library databases because the current five-year contracts expired at the end of June.