Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Week 1, Semester 2 - IM'ing

At Stoughton Public Library we IM in-house amongst staff and we offer IM reference services in the evening hours. So I'm fairly comfortable IM'ing. I must say that IM reference is quite different than face-to-face reference. As the name implies, patrons expect an answer immediately.

One thing I learned this week is the first step of adding someone as your Buddy - ask her for her screen name. Then you can go through the remaining steps of actually adding her (or him) in. Thanks for the tip Jean.


(By the way, it's birthday month at our house, thus, the cakes.)

3 comments:

jaime said...

Yum - cupcakes are my favorite!
Did you decide whether to set up IM accounts in more services or just stick with the one?

PandaLibrarian said...

Hi Amy,

I apologize for being late on commenting! I love the cupcake cake (made me hungry just looking at it). I hope there are lots of buddys on your IM list.

Keep on playing!

Jean

Pinky said...

I love the cupcake cake, too. We had cupcakes at our staff holiday party and they were gorgeous, too.