I'm into IM

I wanted to learn about IMing for work. Honest! We would like to add this service at the Youth Help Desk. When looking at the public libraries that use this, there isn't any easy way to tell if they offer it to kids. I'm sure some teen departments do, but it could be interesting if we offer it and the person on the other end is in second grade. Have you ever watched a 2nd grader type? My only concern about adding IM to the Youth Help Desk is that I expect that the busiest in-person times of day/night would directly correspond to the busiest IM times--and we have times already when we can barely keep up. I can see that families might prefer it to the telephone, though.

Would I try IM at home? Well, if I had a computer I might. :)

RSS Success

I chose Google Reader as the beginning point on my baby steps in learning about RSS and feed readers. I decided to go with a known quantity, and because I already had a login and password it was simple.

The blog I chose to subscribe to is one I never remember to locate and read. It's from NSLS and is written by another public library youth person, Susan Lemke who manages the Youth area at the Niles Public Library. I also subscribed to Gail Borden Learns (as instructed!).

I'm sure I'll continue to use this. Now all I need is something to remind me to check my feed reader page...

First Blog

In thinking of how a blog would be useful to me, I had a brainstorm--StoryTubes 2009! It would simplify my communication with the partner libraries and make each person's comments available to our group. It would need to be passworded or "closed" in some way; I'll learn how to do that next.