Desktop News - Issue 160

Desktop News
Issue 160	Wednesday, May 12, 1999	11:14:14 AM
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House Passes Budget

The Ohio House of Representatives passed a budget on May 6, 1999 that includes $1,871,151 in funding for the seven Regional Library Systems (RLS) in Ohio for SFY 2000. The budget process now moves to the Ohio Senate. On May 18th Mike Lucas will present testimony to the Senate Finance Committee pertaining to the State Library of Ohio’s budget request. Stephen Hedges, the Director of the Nelsonville Public Library, will speak on behalf of the RLS. His library is a member of Ohio Valley Area Libraries (OVAL) located in Wellston.

The text of HB283 As Passed the House is now online in the Ohio Capitol Connection. This will be the version for a period of time as the Senate starts its hearings, if it proceeds as in the past, there will be a Senate substitute version next. Check out http://www.ohcapcon.com/csec/pgread1.ihtml?/budget123/budget_menu.htm

Annual Spring Planning Retreat

If you were not able to participate in our May 6th Spring Planning Retreat, ask one of the 53 members who did attend and see what you missed. And ask to see their Grand Slam photo.

Book Discussion Meeting on May 14th

If your library participates in the NOLA Book Discussion Service, don’t forget to send a representative to the meeting at Burton Public Library on May 14th at 10:00 a.m.

Ohio Summer Reading Program Web Site

Ruth Metcalf announced that the 1999 Ohio Summer Reading Program's "INCREDIBLE LIBRARY TIME MACHINE!" web site is now available for you to use with your young patrons and their families. OPLIN has put these sites up on OHKIDS and they will be available through the duration of your reading programs. She hopes that this online site will complement your programs and give you another tool to promote the enjoyment and love of reading!

Below are the links you can use to get to the sites on OHKIDS:
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/products/oks/STUFF/ohiofun.html#Other
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/products/oks/SUBJECTS/reading.html#General

In addition, you can access the 1999 Ohio Reading Program website through the State Library of Ohio on the "What's New" section under the Library Development header at the following URL: http://winslo.state.oh.us/new.html

If you work at a reference desk this is a question that you'll hear many times every day. With the rapid development of electronic phone/email directories (both CD and Internet-based) it's tough to know what the best source is to answer that question. I needed to locate a phone number the other day and came across a site named teldir.com. This site contains links to a number of the major phone and email directories divided by both geography (many countries from around the world are represented) and type of search (phone, address, reverse lookup, etc.). So the next time you get the question "Can you find a phone number for me?" try teldir.com

There is a growing dilemma in the world of computing technology, IP addresses may soon be exhausted. TCP/IP (the protocol suite upon which the Internet is based) requires that every computer or device attached to the Internet must have a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. There are over four billion unique addresses possible using the currently employed 32-bit address technology, which yields addresses such as: 131.123.34.23. Soon this technology may not be able to generate enough unique addresses to meet the demand. How will we solve this growing problem? The answer IPv6. IPv6, the next version of IP, will be able to provide 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (340 trillion trillion trillion) addresses using a 128 address. This would allow well over 1,000,000 hosts connected to the Internet for every square meter of the earth's surface.

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