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 OPLIN Board has negotiated a contract with OpenDNS to set up a statewide Internet content filtering system that will be available to all public libraries. OPLIN is charged by the Ohio Legislature "...to help local libraries use filters to screen out obscene and illegal internet materials." For many years, OPLIN has fulfilled this requirement by distributing individual grants to libraries, but the earmarked funds were never enough to provide assistance to more than about 40-50 library systems.