{"id":130,"date":"2006-11-02T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/?p=130"},"modified":"2006-11-02T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T15:11:00","slug":"upenn-librarians-making-im-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/2006\/11\/02\/upenn-librarians-making-im-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"UPenn librarians making IM friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, I&#8217;ve been lurking on the RSS feed for the blog for library staff at the University of Pennsylvania and was amused today to read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.upenn.edu\/blos\/staffweb\/newtech\/InstantMessaging\/perhaps_the_most_charming_im_to_date_whilst_manning_chatref.html\">post about an exchange a librarian had with a  student on the library&#8217;s IM service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if I am reading a blog feed that is clearly not aimed at me but rather at a small group of people who work together, is it accurate to call me a &#8220;lurker?&#8221; A &#8220;busybody?&#8221; Or maybe just &#8220;plain curious?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, I&#8217;ve been lurking on the RSS feed for the blog for library staff at the University of Pennsylvania and was amused today to read this post about an exchange a librarian had with a student on the library&#8217;s IM service. By the way, if I am reading a blog feed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,23,46,24],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academic-libraries","tag-im-reference","tag-interpersonal-communication","tag-reference-interaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}