With all of the recent talk about Instant Messaging in libraries, I thought I would point out an obvious, but often overlooked, point. Librarians need to consider adding their IM names to their personal business cards and signature files. I'm not even talking about doing this mainly for patrons, but for each other. After all, younger librarians may prefer to talk to you this way.

"I'm not alone on this. I communicate solely with a number of people using not the voice features of my phone, but through texting and IM. On one occasion I called a friend of mine and the first thing he said was, 'Uh, what's with the voice communication?' " [walking paper]

Three cheers for Amanda, who has reorganized her list of libraries with blogs to display by type of library. Each list even has its own RSS feed!