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'Text me this call number'

A recent survey confirmed what most college students (and those who work with them)Text Me photo probably already know: text messaging is the college student’s preferred form of communication.

So when University Libraries recently launched the “Text Me” service, WIU library faculty and staff were pretty confident the service would be one that appealed to students.

Through Text Me—a service provided by CARLI, an Illinois-based consortium of which University Libraries is a member—when a library user finds a book, journal article or other resource through the online catalog on the library’s website, he or she can just click on the words “Text me this call number,” enter the mobile phone number and service provider, and the call number will be sent to the individual’s mobile phone in the form of a text message.

“Indiana’s Ball State University recently surveyed about 300 college students, and found that text messaging is their favored form of telecommunication, becoming more popular than e-mail, instant messaging and calling,” wrote Evan Shamoon, in a March 29 blog post on switched.com, a blog that covers digital communication tools and gadgets.

To see how University Libraries’ Text Me service works, check out the video on YouTube or MySpace. For more information, contact TJ-Urbanski@wiu.edu or call (309) 298-2762.

Photo caption: “Text Me,” a short video telling WIU students about the service and how it works, can be seen at WIU’s YouTube channel (youtube.com/watch?v=2yjlz1zZ1cU) and on MySpace.

 

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