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[owlectomy]

Happy fun times: answering ref questions on my smartphone because all the computers are offline.

Curse you, tiny keyboard and slow slow internet!

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[laughingrat]

*laughs* Well seriously, though, it's cool that you had it available. And while I will get on my back legs and pound my chest and bellow if someone suggests that libraries don't need reference desks, I am intrigued by the idea of staff being issued smartphones (or preferably tablets, so it's not so tiny that older/vision impaired staff have trouble) so that we can ping each other when we're in the stacks and need backup, or do a quick access of the staffside catalog when in the stacks, that sort of thing.

[jesse_the_k]

No pings! No noise in the library! Shhhhhhhh.

I know, I know.

Texting would be better anyway. Wow — and intranet Twitter would work swell, although the explosive hilarity might turn some patrons' heads.

[laughingrat]

Well, in my library utopia, I would insist we muted them. ;) But yeah, actually, a brief text would be effective: "LINE AT DESK" or some such. All one would need to know, reely.

Also, you should see people's faces when I'm all, "Yeah, can you please mute that? Yeah, you. Yes, you, the one whose phone is going BOOP BOOP BOOP every time you hit a key and WHOOSH every time you get a text. Yes, I will stand here in a determined but slightly gormless fashion until you are so embarrassed that you actually mute it. You muted it? Thank you." *snort*

[jesse_the_k]

I was in a lovely workshop at Think Galacticon 3, led by Adrienne Marie Brown. She's the best facilitator I've ever seen. We were in the murky transition between "waiting to start gobble gobble" and "starting now."

She walked up to, and then knelt to eye level with, the loudest turkey. She then said, "Can you model not talking for us?"
Somehow she was calling this person to be a leader and shushing her simultaneously. Wonder if you could try that with the cell-phone booper. Somebody's cell in my library made a high-hat sound. Kept think the (metal) roof was falling in.

[laughingrat]

BRB LOLLING FOREVER

Seriously, that was a pretty awesome facilitator trick.