Stephen Francoeur

Sep
26th

Sat

Maximiek, Sarah, Erin Rushton, and Elizabeth Brown. "Coding into the Great Unknown: Analyzing Instant Messaging Session Transcripts to Identify User Behaviors and Measure Quality of Service." College and Research Libraries preprint. Accepted 22 Septem...

This preprint is expected to be published in July 2010. Analyzes IM reference transcripts. “The goals of this work were to determine who was using the IM service and why; if staffing for the service…

Sep
24th

Thu

You Never Know What Kind of Questions You'll Get

A librarian in Florida received a marriage proposal from her boyfriend via the statewide Ask a Librarian service there.

Sep
17th

Thu

dazzboard

Sep
12th

Sat

Listening to: Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting http://bit.ly/BuCw4

Tucker-Raymond, Caleb. "text messaging options for L-net." L-net: Oregon libraries network, 10 September 2009.

Describes experiment to use Spark IM client to connect with Library H3lp’s SMS gateway for text messaging.

Sep
11th

Fri

Anyone using QR codes in libraries? Specifically, wondering how your patrons might be using QR codes you provide them.

Listening to: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Keeping Warm http://bit.ly/iKbt6

Listening to: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Conductor http://bit.ly/kMYSh

Listening to: We Were Promised Jetpacks - It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning http://bit.ly/3OR6n9

Sep
9th

Wed

MacManus, Richard. "Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Personalization." ReadWriteWeb, 9 September 2009.