Hello everyone,
Our reference staff has decided that they want to keep up with the Jones' and
enable our university students to contact the reference desk via a chat
interface.
After a bit o research I decided to go with Meebo, specifically MeeboMe. I've
also decided that I want to run it
A consortium of NC Libraries have gotten together to come up with an open
source IM/Meebo-like service for VR that they are adapting for library use.
They are adding features that we need that Meebo doesn't offer--like queueing
of questions, more than one operator on an account, statistics,
I briefly looked into Meebo for our site and decided against it. I
didn't like the idea of our chat sessions being bounced to and possibly
logged on a third party server. At least in our context as a public
library, reference interviews should be treated as confidential by
default, and chat
Interesting viewpoint.
Andrew Shuping [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/30/08 10:26 AM
Why make them login? I can only speak for my library (Mercer), but we don't
really have a number of outsiders attempting to use the service or abuse
it. I'd think patrons would be frustrated to have to login to use a
Cloutman, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/30/08 10:50 AM
I briefly looked into Meebo for our site and decided against it. I
didn't like the idea of our chat sessions being bounced to and possibly
logged on a third party server. At least in our context as a public
library, reference interviews should
Cool! Thanks for the links, Clay. Looks promising. Will definitely keep an eye
on this.
- Gavin
Clay Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/30/08 10:31 AM
A consortium of NC Libraries have gotten together to come up with an open
source IM/Meebo-like service for VR that they are adapting for library
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:50 -0700, Cloutman, David wrote:
I haven't had an opportunity to finish it, but the solution I am
developing uses an open source AJAX widget called PHPFreeChat. The
current release is 1.1, and it will run off the standard LAMP stack,
without the need for additional
On a whim I created a bittorrent of the concatenated MARC files
donated to the Internet Archive by Scriblio (7,030,372 records):
http://inkdroid.org/torrents/lc-bib.torrent
Feel free to download them, and please consider running your client to
help seed the data.
//Ed
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at
