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Very soon now, OLC, the State Library, and OPLIN will be actively working to protect library funding in our next state budget. In fact, OLC is already in the process of sending mailings to election winners to give them some basic information about public libraries in Ohio.
The fall (October) edition of the OPLIN Circuit is now available online - check out the latest issue!
The Ohio Public Library Information Network's (OPLIN) 2010 Stakeholders meeting will be held from 9:00 - 10:00 am on Friday, September 10 at the Ohio Expo Center's Lausche Building as part of the Ohio Library Council Expo. This is our annual report to Ohio public libraries (our "stakeholders") where we review what has happened over the past year and take a peek at the future of the network. Everyone is welcome to attend. Afterward, please stop by booth 717 at the Expo and chat with us!
OPLIN offers a service that allows Ohio public libraries to deliver library notices to patrons as text messages. Libraries can email ILS notices to OPLIN's SMS gateway, and OPLIN will deliver the notice to patrons as native SMS.
Actually, this is about the "not" OPLIN Connectivity Survey.
Remember that we now collect data about Ohio public libraries continuously through http://oplin.org/datacenter and ask that you make changes there whenever things change in your library. This replaces the annual Connectivity Survey.
The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) is seeking nominations for its Board of Trustees. The OPLIN Board consists of eleven members appointed by the State Library Board (ORC 3375.65). These members are library directors, staff, and past or present trustees of public libraries.
The OPLIN Board has one vacancy to complete an unfinished term ending June 30, 2011, with the option to be reappointed for two additional three-year terms.
The summer edition of the OPLIN CIRCUIT is now available! Check out these stories and more:
OPLIN is seeking libraries to test a new service that will allow libraries to send notification messages directly to patrons' cellphones via standard Short Message Service (SMS) instead of sending messages to their e-mail accounts.
Libraries that are interested in testing this service should be aware of these points:
On May 13, 2010, the State Library of Ohio Board approved a $1,518,401 federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) LSTA grant for the Libraries Connect Ohio partners to continue purchasing a core collection of electronic resources for the statewide Ohio Web Library. The collection is available to all Ohioans and includes information and resources such as full text journals, reference materials, newspapers, art, test prep, tutorials, and online courses.
Recently, several libraries have complained about slow connectivity. After looking at traffic patterns for a few of them, we noticed that bandwidth seemed to immediately spike first thing in the morning and remain high for most of the day.