[Web4lib] IM Security

[Kelli Staley]

Here's a list on the libsuccess wiki of libraries using IM, and lists of 
libraries specifically using Meebo.

http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Online_Reference#Libraries_Using_IM_Reference

Kelli Staley
Information Technology Department Head
Lansing Public Library
2750 Indiana Avenue
Lansing, IL 60438
(708) 474-2447 ext. 123
http://www.lansing.lib.il.us
kstaley at lansing.lib.il.us


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jami Haskell" <jamihaskell at gmail.com>
To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:23 PM
Subject: [Web4lib] IM Security


> Please help!
> I would like to implement IM for inter-staff communications and, 
> hopefully,
> for reference/user services at my library.
> However, I am being met with major resistance from my systems staff. They
> claim that it is too much of a security risk and we cannot do it.
>
> Every other library I have worked in has used IM (either via Trillian or
> meebo) and security issues were never raised. I know that thousands of
> libraries use IM all the time. I am proposing that my library system use
> Meebo for this so that they can interact with multiple IM clients without
> having to install software on the machines.
>
> How can I explain to my systems folks that this is an okay thing to do??
> Please help!
>
> Thanks so much,
> Jami Haskell
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