SUNY Libraries Using IM

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Binghamton University Libraries

Buffalo State College

Pronounced "Askable" Librarian, I thought it would be catchy and unique. We get about 10 IMs per month(as of November 2006) since we started in August 2006. We support AIM, MSN, Yahoo! Most of the monitoring is done through Meebo.

Morrisville State College Libraries

Talk to a Librarian Live

Use AOL IM. Faculty, staff, and students can get help by clicking on the icon which opens up AOL IM:

Nassau Community College Library

Chat with a Librarian

We use Trillian which supports AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN. We started last fall. It is voluntary on the part of the librarians and only two or three of us participate. So far all our students use AIM to communicate this way. Students who use it are very pleased.

Schenectady County Community College

Ask a Librarian

This is a web-based virtual reference service using Question Point - 24/7, not IM. SCCC provides chat and e-mail reference in cooperation with Hudson Valley Community College.

Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library

IM A Librarian We use Trillian, a free multi-client IM server, and have IM accounts w/ the "big three" IM clients--AIM, Y!M, and MSN.

SUNY Oswego

Ask Penfield

Users of AIM, MSN, and Yahoo can contact a reference librarian. We use Trillian to simultaneously connect to all three accounts.

SUNY Potsdam

Chat with a Librarian We are now up on MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, and AOL, and use GAIM to receive messages and manage multiple identities.

Westchester Community College

Harold L. Drimmer Library

Instant Message a Librarian

Use AOL IM, MSN and Yahoo! Messengers. Faculty, staff, and students can get help finding information by sending an instant message to the location listed on the Library's website.

Initiated by Peter Barvoets with the assistance of the SUNYLA Information Technology Committee. - June, 2006