Texting

Well, now I have to stop bitching about how none of my fellow employees can carry on a decent conversation - I've become one of those people in the breakroom busily tapping away. My friends are thrilled that I now respond to their texts. I'm actually talking (so to speak) more with friends from other stores than I have in months, because we can text each other throughout the day.

Even though we're not allowed to use our phones at work, I've been granted a wee bit of clemancy on this because I'm checking my phone to see if my questions (all, oh, eighteen million of them) were answered, then I'm sharing the answers with the staff. You can actually thank them, because some of the questions (re: Buffalo Soldiers, poisonous daddylonglegs, etc) were from questions randomly thrown out in the breakroom, or in our grocery meeting.

I'll be honest and say that I think the reason I liked the text reference is because I knew going in that the nature of the service would tend to be simple reference questions. That made it less scary. Also, because of the time delay as the librarian you weren't "on the spot" as much. As a patron, I knew there would be a delay, but still hoped secretly that I'd get a response right away (especially when trying to settle an arguement at a party over whether daddylonglegs were poisonous).

I thought Text a Librarian was very easy to use, and so was the instruction manual. It was quite easy, and coming from me that's saying something. I had quite a few problems with QuestionPoint, which really made me just feel stupid for not getting the hang of it better. But this was cake.