"Twenty Reasons for...Librarians to Love IM"

Actually the whole title of this article is "Twenty Reasons for Teacher-Librarians to Love IM" but most of the twenty reasons are relevant to any kind of librarian--or even parent.

The author is Stephan Abram, a veritable popcorn machine of ideas and energy. He's the current President of the Canadian Library Association, the VP of Innovation at Sirsi, popular prognosticator at conferences, and co-author of "Born With a Chip", an LJ article that's been noted widely--and which obliquely mentioned the OCLC Scan.

Unfortunately, this article is not available at the Web version of Multimedia & Internet@Schools, only in print. v.11(4) July/August 2004, p.16-18.