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http://www.kellistaley.com/2005/04/our-multiple-online-personalities.html Kelli Staley writes about the IM experience at Lansing PL, and shares some cool stuff about how it all works: How does our staff like this setup? They like the the separate names. The Teen Dept. librarian said she gets a lot of young adult reader’s advisory inquiries which our Reference desk would be unable to answer. Her IM traffic seems to pick up after she booktalks at the high school. Students will remember parts of what she said, and then inquire about the title. It also helps to get an idea of the age of the patron right […]

Hey – now you can tell if the SJCPL IM Reference service is online or not! We were inspired by Lansing! http://www.libraryforlife.org/asksjcpl/asksjcpl.html Thanks Maire!

This is in the works for the library’s Sights & Sounds department! Direct IM capability to find out if music, movies or audiobooks are available. I’ll be training a bit with the staff before they go live. I was tickled to see we are on the right track when I saw Jenny’s post about Lansing Public Library and their multiple screen names. “Kelli wrote, ?Our library is on 2 levels, so we have separate screen names for different age groups. AskLPLAdult, AskLPLTeen, AskLPLYouth?(we’re on Yahoo & AOL).? She went on to note that a few weeks ago, they received IMs […]

Schmidt & Stephens 2005: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA512192

SJCPLskagirlie is playing with Jybe with one of our Nextgen libs. Neat stuff. Think of the learning opportunities for a librarian, a user and a learner to co-browse a few sites.

Good stuff here: http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/schwagbag/archives/2005/03/im.html So here are some of the pros and cons (for our particular situation), and my general questions . . . Pros it’s saves several thousands of dollars a year ? it’s free! it works ? bonus! no messy setup or clunky interfaces; uses a medium that many/most students are already familiar with ability to create customized ‘queues’ per subject or librarian for things like subject pages (simply create an appropriate and different screen name for that purpose), which with VR software can cost around $3000 per librarian it’s ‘disposable’: one thing that really bothers me about […]

VIa Skagirlie, who rules as a presenter about IM, http://feelgoodlibrarian.typepad.com/feelgood_librarian/2005/03/each_in_our_own.html

Libraryman inspired me! http://www.acme.com/licensemaker/