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My supervisor, the branch manager, is very very cool and a great boss for any number of reasons, but one of the reasons is that she’s very supportive of my efforts to bring current tech into common use at the library. However, she is admittedly easily overwhelmed by a lot of new tech. Bringing in blogs, wikis and so on brings a “scared bunny” look to her face, even as she encourages me to keep doing what I’m doing.

Although she got an invite for Google Talk last week, she only set herself up for IM today. She was very nervous about it. To her credit, the first thing she did was log on and then start reading Google’s help pages. (I quickly congratulated her for R-ing The FM.) And soon after, she and I were chatting on IM while she also chatted with one of our coworkers at the Main library. She transferred a file to me via IM and said, “This is really keen!” We discussed ways that we could use IM, and how some ideas she had might be better executed through email or on a blog. “So many choices!” she said. I beamed. I was so happy and proud.

And then, towards the end of my work day, I briefly chatted with far-off Laura. It was great to converse with another librarian who I’ve yet to meet face-to-face. I really felt like a member of some Invisible College.