I'M IMING

Since I've been using GoogleTalk, this week's assignment wasn't entirely new, but still there was a lot to be learned. I found the chat about Meebos in the catalog fascinating. Our catalog is so NOT user friendly that I think having a widget handy there would be a huge service to our patrons. I especially like Paul Pival's comment that there should be one on the results page as well as the error page, since I've found people often build a search that nets them tons of inappropriate hits and they have no idea how to narrow it down to what they really want. We'd need to enable some sort of audio indication that we've rec'd a message though since we're often doing something other than using our computers when we're at the desk. I looked at the IM pages of several of the libraries on the list and contact LaX public with a question about their Oktoberfest and got an almost instantaneous answer. Prosit!