This INCREDIBLE handout was created by SJCPL’s own Kathryn Slott – who ROCKS! This one is for FIRE, a MAC OS X IM app, but you could adapt it for almost any IM client. Note the incredible attention to the Reference Interview! http://www.tametheweb.com/presentations/Fire_training.pdf
Monthly Archives: May 2005
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http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/schwagbag/archives/2005/05/imers_not_digit_2.html Sherri reports on her survey. It’s fascinating! Excerpt: 3) Have you ever used the UNLV Libraries Chat Reference Service? And now for the interesting stuff . . . a mere 11.3% (c=21) of respondents reported that they have used the UNLV Libraries chat reference service in the past. That leaves a whopping 88.7% (c=165) of IMers who responded out in the (virtual) cold. Talk about ROI! That is not a very good one at all. Some folks, likje me, might even say “CUT THE CORD!” with such low numbers. Is it promotion? Bad software? General disinterest? Library administrators take […]
Joe does a great post at the flifeline about VHS, alerting our users about changes to the formats we offer… http://lishost.org/~sjcpl/archives/000295.html
I’m sitting here with tears welling folks…. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/3296744/in/set-83049/ This is such a powerful thing…. poor Mickey had aggression issues. My heart goes out to Cogdog. What a sweet dog my Jake is…he’s 11 now.