Over the past year, Mary Lou Johnson-Hardin County Library has experienced bottlenecks with its connection to the Internet. As a result, patrons and staff often had to wait for web pages, email, and downloads to occur.
Recently, the State of Ohio and the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) were able to upgrade the library's aging T-1 line to a 10Mb Metro Ethernet connection. This increased the speed and bandwidth of the library's connection by nearly 7 times. OPLIN and the State of Ohio are the suppliers of Internet connections to 251 public libraries throughout the state.
The library houses 15 public computers that connect to the internet,