Comments for shinylib http://shinylib.com the shiny librarian Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:13:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on privacy and suckers by shinylib http://shinylib.com/2010/01/26/privacy-and-suckers/comment-page-1/#comment-7556 shinylib Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:13:56 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=443#comment-7556 Good point, actually. Good point, actually.

]]> Comment on privacy and suckers by alan cordle http://shinylib.com/2010/01/26/privacy-and-suckers/comment-page-1/#comment-7547 alan cordle Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:05:45 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=443#comment-7547 does this post have anything to do with paper towels? does this post have anything to do with paper towels?

]]> Comment on privacy and suckers by Kevin Moore http://shinylib.com/2010/01/26/privacy-and-suckers/comment-page-1/#comment-7540 Kevin Moore Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:05:29 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=443#comment-7540 If the student were a minor, I'd intervene. But our students are big boys and girls. Now is the time to start learning lessons about the limits of gullibility and charity. Sometimes you have to learn them the hard way. Goodness knows I did. :-) If the student were a minor, I’d intervene. But our students are big boys and girls. Now is the time to start learning lessons about the limits of gullibility and charity. Sometimes you have to learn them the hard way. Goodness knows I did. :-)

]]> Comment on privacy and suckers by jenjen http://shinylib.com/2010/01/26/privacy-and-suckers/comment-page-1/#comment-7539 jenjen Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:51:51 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=443#comment-7539 Wasn't it a violation of dude's privacy for the student to be listening in on your interaction with dude? Wasn’t it a violation of dude’s privacy for the student to be listening in on your interaction with dude?

]]> Comment on Info lit or just plain lit? by alan cordle http://shinylib.com/2009/06/01/info-lit-or-just-plain-lit/comment-page-1/#comment-4164 alan cordle Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:09:03 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=260#comment-4164 Dude, you're getting an IVY DEGREE! Dude, you’re getting an IVY DEGREE!

]]> Comment on Stress! by rachel http://shinylib.com/2009/05/27/stress/comment-page-1/#comment-4007 rachel Thu, 28 May 2009 14:08:51 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=398#comment-4007 hey there...first off...ouch. this situation sounds super frustrating. i know just what you mean about the temptation to just say "we're doing it this way because i say we are". that kind of thing never goes down well in libraries though. second...i know the LAST thing you probably want right now is a different idea about how to staff this thing but i thought i'd tell you what we're doing that works very, very well. You're using libraryh3lp, right? the beauty of libraryh3lp is that you don't really HAVE to decide exactly who is staffing it at all times. the way we do it is: you have to monitor if you're at the reference desk. you may *optionally* monitor it from in your office. The person at the reference desk is the "first line" but anyone may answer any IM. If you're in your office and you notice it's taking the ref desk a while to answer one, you pick it up because they're probably busy at the reference desk. If you're at the reference desk with a patron, you MAY set your IM to busy, *even though* that means we might appear "offline" to IM patrons if there's no one doing back up in their office. We had a lot of anxiety at the outset about how the ref desk would balance in person and IM ref questions and it just hasn't been a problem. When we first started there were just two or three of us who monitored the libraryh3lp from their office, now everyone does. Because they find it pretty easy and fun. We usually have the situation of being out at the ref desk and having someone in their office pick up the IM before you get to it. it really has worked well for us. i know we're really small and we have fancy-pants offices and we're probably a lot more comfortable with loosey-goosey "we're just going to see how this goes" type stuff than pcc. but i will say that even for me personally, i really appreciate having the back up when i'm out there on the ref desk and having the liberty to just switch it to "away" when i'm super-super busy out there. hope that helps or at least doesn't add to your rage :) hang in there, this will pass. hey there…first off…ouch. this situation sounds super frustrating. i know just what you mean about the temptation to just say “we’re doing it this way because i say we are”. that kind of thing never goes down well in libraries though.

second…i know the LAST thing you probably want right now is a different idea about how to staff this thing but i thought i’d tell you what we’re doing that works very, very well. You’re using libraryh3lp, right? the beauty of libraryh3lp is that you don’t really HAVE to decide exactly who is staffing it at all times. the way we do it is: you have to monitor if you’re at the reference desk. you may *optionally* monitor it from in your office. The person at the reference desk is the “first line” but anyone may answer any IM. If you’re in your office and you notice it’s taking the ref desk a while to answer one, you pick it up because they’re probably busy at the reference desk. If you’re at the reference desk with a patron, you MAY set your IM to busy, *even though* that means we might appear “offline” to IM patrons if there’s no one doing back up in their office. We had a lot of anxiety at the outset about how the ref desk would balance in person and IM ref questions and it just hasn’t been a problem. When we first started there were just two or three of us who monitored the libraryh3lp from their office, now everyone does. Because they find it pretty easy and fun. We usually have the situation of being out at the ref desk and having someone in their office pick up the IM before you get to it. it really has worked well for us. i know we’re really small and we have fancy-pants offices and we’re probably a lot more comfortable with loosey-goosey “we’re just going to see how this goes” type stuff than pcc. but i will say that even for me personally, i really appreciate having the back up when i’m out there on the ref desk and having the liberty to just switch it to “away” when i’m super-super busy out there.

hope that helps or at least doesn’t add to your rage :) hang in there, this will pass.

]]> Comment on What I’ve Been Doin’ by Linda Hofschire http://shinylib.com/2009/05/21/what-ive-been-doin/comment-page-1/#comment-3765 Linda Hofschire Fri, 22 May 2009 01:56:48 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=392#comment-3765 i'm completely with you on the non-APA intolerance. Chicago (and others) make very little sense to me. i’m completely with you on the non-APA intolerance. Chicago (and others) make very little sense to me.

]]> Comment on Pretentious…language…dork by Jenn http://shinylib.com/2009/05/09/pretentiouslanguagedork/comment-page-1/#comment-3465 Jenn Tue, 12 May 2009 21:48:44 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=271#comment-3465 We've been haggling over semantics in our instruction committee now that we're making plans to start a series of *actual* orientation sessions at the start of the fall semester. There's the concern that we'll confuse the faculty who refer to instruction sessions as orientations, the concern that faculty will think that library orientations will suffice and not schedule library instruction and concern that we're far too concerned about it altogether. It might be important for everyone in the library to get their lingo straight, so we can talk to each other intelligently, but for faculty and students, I think you're right. A preoccupation with jargon, whether it's "OPAC" or "database" or "instruction vs. orientation" is just us missing the point. We’ve been haggling over semantics in our instruction committee now that we’re making plans to start a series of *actual* orientation sessions at the start of the fall semester. There’s the concern that we’ll confuse the faculty who refer to instruction sessions as orientations, the concern that faculty will think that library orientations will suffice and not schedule library instruction and concern that we’re far too concerned about it altogether.

It might be important for everyone in the library to get their lingo straight, so we can talk to each other intelligently, but for faculty and students, I think you’re right. A preoccupation with jargon, whether it’s “OPAC” or “database” or “instruction vs. orientation” is just us missing the point.

]]> Comment on Citation Woes by shane503 http://shinylib.com/2009/05/07/citation-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-3459 shane503 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:09:40 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=303#comment-3459 Why do we do this? See my anti-citation-style rant... http://www.library.ohiou.edu/newstudents/blog/?p=115#content Why do we do this?
See my anti-citation-style rant…
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/newstudents/blog/?p=115#content

]]> Comment on Citation Woes by Stephen Francoeur http://shinylib.com/2009/05/07/citation-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-3422 Stephen Francoeur Mon, 11 May 2009 14:20:20 +0000 http://shinylib.com/?p=303#comment-3422 Thanks for putting a spotlight on this issue, which inspired me to write a quick post on my own blog about the problems with databases that export citations or give you a chance to copy/paste them and the problems with citation management tools that can format citations for you (RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero, etc.) Thanks for putting a spotlight on this issue, which inspired me to write a quick post on my own blog about the problems with databases that export citations or give you a chance to copy/paste them and the problems with citation management tools that can format citations for you (RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero, etc.)

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