{"id":10727,"date":"2013-09-30T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2013-09-30T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:00:54","slug":"irc-offers-students-quick-imchat-help-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2013\/09\/30\/irc-offers-students-quick-imchat-help-service\/","title":{"rendered":"IRC offers students quick IM\/Chat Help Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10832\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/09\/Library-1024x4861.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10832\" class=\" wp-image-10832 \" alt=\"Library-1024x486\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/09\/Library-1024x4861.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/09\/Library-1024x4861.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/09\/Library-1024x4861-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/09\/Library-1024x4861-600x284.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/09\/Library-1024x4861-115x55.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new IM shows a chat box right on the IMSA IRC page.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMSA has gone through many changes since the end of the last academic year. One of the additions includes the IM\/Chat Help Service offered online on the IRC Website. Students can use the chat box to instant message a librarian for help with research, formatting citations, and more. The handy facility now allows students to get virtual help from anywhere on campus or even off. Not only that, but \u00a0the service is open to faculty and staff as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to help students and staff\/faculty in any way that is most comfortable for them: in person, or online\u201d says<strong> librarian Connie James-Jenkin<\/strong>. The IM\/Chat Help Service is available any time the library is open.<\/p>\n<p>If the librarians are unavailable, a message will appear reporting their absence. In addition\u00a0to the Chat Help Service, there is an option to email them at <a href=\"mailto:irc@imsa.edu\">irc@imsa.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in taking advantage of the help service? The chat boxes can be found at the bottom of the IMSA IRC homepage (<a href=\"http:\/\/staff.imsa.edu\/irc\/\">http:\/\/staff.imsa.edu\/irc\/<\/a>), on the course\/assignment specific research guide (<a href=\"http:\/\/ircguids.imsa.edu\/\">http:\/\/ircguids.imsa.edu\/<\/a>) and embedded in the IMSA IRC catalog (<a href=\"http:\/\/imsa.summon.serialssolutions.com\/search\">http:\/\/imsa.summon.serialssolutions.com\/search<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Check it out, it\u2019s amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMSA has gone through many changes since the end of the last academic year. One of the additions includes the IM\/Chat Help Service offered online&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":10776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019],"tags":[1970,1225,1959,1971,1916,1972],"coauthors":[1897],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imsanews","tag-chat","tag-help","tag-imsa-irc","tag-library","tag-online","tag-resource"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10867,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions\/10867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}