The 2011 OPLIN Stakeholders Meeting will be held this year at the OLC Convention and Expo in Toledo, at 3:00pm on Wednesday, October 26. This is our annual report to Ohio public libraries (our "stakeholders"). OPLIN staff will review what has happened over the past year and take a peek at the future of the OPLIN network. This year's Stakeholders Meeting will report on the biggest changes to the network since it was first established, and will also report on possible new OPLIN services. Everyone is welcome to attend.

We have completed uploading the data that the State Library collected from libraries last winter into the OPLIN Data Center. Any data submitted to the State Library after May 18 was not included in the update.

Last year, the Public Library Data Center replaced the annual OPLIN Connectivity Survey for gathering library data, and so a brief explanation of the OPLIN Data Center is probably in order. OPLIN no longer asks libraries to fill out a "Connectivity Survey" each year, and instead, we get a copy of some of the data that you submit in response to the State Library's required survey. However, that survey does not include data about your branch connectivity and some other items, so we ask that each director (or deputy) login to http://www.oplin.org/datacenter/ and keep that information up to date. (Tip: if you record changes as they happen in the Data Center, you can use it as a reference when you fill out the State Library survey.)

The OPLIN Board is pleased to welcome two new members:

• Jill Billman-Royer is president of the Southwest Public Libraries Board, is a consultant with Burges and Burges, and has worked as an advisor to several libraries on various issues.
• Rebecca Schultz has been the Technology Coordinator for the Portsmouth Public Library since 1997.

Both new members will take their seats at the August 12 OPLIN Board meeting.

The summer (July) edition of the OPLIN Circuit is now available online - check out the latest issue!

• Details of the new OPLIN mail release (Zimbra)
• Information about upcoming network changes
• Descriptions of the new statewide databases
• News about the Juniper router upgrades
• Notice to update the Public Library Data Center