[Web4lib] "Chat Aggregators" for virtual reference

[Randy Souther]

We're using Gaim on PCs and Adium on Macs.

We chose Gaim over Trillian as we wanted to be able to connect with  
Google Talk, among others, and the free version of Trillian does not  
have this capability. We've also loaded these applications on our  
public computers.

http://www.usfca.edu/library/ask.html

Randy Souther
Reference Technology Librarian
Gleeson Library | Geschke Center
University of San Francisco

southerr at usfca.edu
415-422-5388


On Aug 3, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Jason Griffey wrote:

>
>
> I'm still befuddled why so many libraries are choosing to use Trillian
> for this service...it's always struck me as far too overblown for
> usefulness.
>
> We're going to be using GAIM for our service, primarily because it's
> fast, easy, and open source (the big one). I'm not going to trust
> closed-source products unless I'm forced to. :-)
>
> Jason