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Hi-ho, A Delgado the Library here, reporting to you LIVE from a laptop in a living room! It sure has been a doggone while since I posted last. Whew! I've been busy zipping around town in my stylish, yet affordable cadet blue Yaris. Since I last talked to all y'all readers I:

• Finished Fall 2011 semester at ACC
• Finished Fall 2011 semester at Concordia University
• Endured Christmas with my family
• Attended a (paid!) AskAcademic training
• Added a Simpsons me to my blog profile
• Started sharing my (volunteer) reference badassery with Ask Now Texas

I had my first shift with AskAcademic on Thursday night. I had 2 questions in 3.5 hours. One was a disconnect - the student, I reckon, didn't like that I had to help someone else at the desk - and a question about how to get to PsychInfo from a library webpage. I miss you PsychInfo!!!
I had my first shift at Concordia University (CTX) of the Spring 2012 semester. I actually had a meebo question from an Education grad student asking how to get an article zhe had a citation for. No students in the library though.
My latest volunteer experience though is with Ask Now Texas. I had my first shift ever and it was v. quiet. No nibbles at IM whatsoever. But I expect fun-filled times on Ask Now, everyone. For true! It's gonna be wack nasty on the freak tip (whatever that means).
In my last wee bit of librarian-type news, at my AskAcademic training (fun!) Kris gave us all fancy binder handouts with copies of an article called something like "How to be a Person in Virtual Reference" and another by Amy VanScoy. Y'all, I'd never read anything by VanScoy. She might be my new Batgirl heroine.