Kanopy update
Kanopy is adding more mainstream content soon, Warner Bros, Lionsgate and more.
Their Town Hall from 8/11/21 is available on YouTube if you want to learn more.
News
FYI: Some older Kindles won’t connect online after December 2021
https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-check-if-your-kindle-will-lose-internet-access
Trying to figure out if your Kindle will lose internet access? We’re guessing you heard about Amazon’s upcoming changes that will stop some older Kindles from accessing the internet entirely, once the change happens in the U.S. this December.
Fortunately not all Kindles will be affected in the same way. It all depends on which model you have, as Amazon’s move to walk away from older 2G and 3G networks (moving to 4G and 5G) is a bigger deal for Kindles that don’t have Wi-Fi access. The slightly newer Kindles will still have Wi-Fi, but lose cellular connections That said, the convenience of downloading a book on the go via cellular is a huge thing to lose.
Congratulations Emily!
Congratulations to Emily Hicks, Smith History Library Public Services Associate, who was recently named as a research contributor in a new book published on Revolutionary War patriots buried in the Oxford area.
Oxford overflowing with summer reading opportunities (Oxford Observer article)
Oxford overflowing with summer reading opportunities (Oxford Observer article 6/5/2020)
“Folding” against COVID
Sparked by an inquiry by an Oxford patron, The Lane Libraries has been using idle compute cycles on our servers to help with the Rosetta@home distributed computing project. Rosetta@home helps to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases, including COVID-19. Running the Rosetta program on idle computers helps speed up and extend research.
Read more about this project here.
