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.
Public Library News
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.
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) – coming soon
OPLIN has purchased LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) for Ohio public libraries. These are high-quality video courses with a focus on business and technology.
We are working with the vendor and OPLIN to have this ready for patron use sometime later in July.