Public Library News

“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.

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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.

Here is a class list.

We are working with the vendor and OPLIN to have this ready for patron use sometime later in July.

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