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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.

• OPLIN email change information
• Website Kit pricing increase
• Statewide database renewals
• Returning OPLIN Board members
• Other OPLIN happenings & news

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.

• Details of recent Ethernet circuit upgrades
• News about Ethernet service providers
• Updates on language/genealogy databases
• More information about OpenDNS filtering
• Other OPLIN happenings and reminders

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

• Information about OpenDNS filtering
• Statewide database subscription news
• ODURT retirement in December 2011
• Explanation of OPLIN email practices
• Juniper router upgrades (2nd phase)

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.

The Fall (October) edition of The OPLIN Circuit is now available online – check out the latest issue!

• Information about both OPLIN mail servers
• Updated and revised version of OPLIN website
• Upcoming E-Rate workshop schedule
• New databases – statistics & promo materials
• Ohio Public Library Connectivity Data

Many of you will remember that OPLIN put all non-critical work on Dynamic Website Kits on hold last November, while we did major upgrades to all of the older sites running on the older Drupal 5.x platform.

The 2011 OPLIN Stakeholders Meeting will be held this year at the OLC Convention and Expo in Toledo, at 3:00pm on Wednesday, October 26. This is our annual report to Ohio public libraries (our "stakeholders"). OPLIN staff will review what has happened over the past year and take a peek at the future of the OPLIN network. This year's Stakeholders Meeting will report on the biggest changes to the network since it was first established, and will also report on possible new OPLIN services. Everyone is welcome to attend.