{"id":2919,"date":"2023-03-22T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:34:11","slug":"libchat-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/2023\/03\/22\/libchat-is-live\/","title":{"rendered":"LibChat is Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AU Libraries are pleased to announce a new way to ask questions and engage with librarians and staff\u2026<strong>LibChat<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LibChat<\/strong> is a chat reference widget embedded on the <a href=\"libraries.alfred.edu\">libraries.alfred.edu<\/a> website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/libchat-graphic2.png\" alt=\"Active LibChat Widget\" class=\"wp-image-2920\" width=\"253\" height=\"221\" \/><figcaption>                            <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you see this box pop up on the AU Libraries website, it\u2019s not an AI bot-there\u2019s a live human on the other side ready to assist you. &nbsp;Librarians and staff will be online to monitor the chat Mondays-Fridays between 9:15am and 4:15pm (minus a noon hour lunch break for the humans). We are happy to assist you with everything from quick questions or in-depth research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/libchat-graphic.png\" alt=\"Minimized LibChat Widget\" class=\"wp-image-2921\" width=\"84\" height=\"78\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you see the small chat icon in the corner, you can also     start a chat this way.\u00a0 If there is no one online at the time your message will be saved, and we\u2019ll get back to you soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We invite you to give it a try!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/University-Libraries-Logo-Horizontal-Black-01-1.png\" alt=\"AU Libraries Logo\" class=\"wp-image-2927\" width=\"477\" height=\"248\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AU Libraries are pleased to announce a new way to ask questions and engage with librarians and staff\u2026LibChat! LibChat is a chat reference widget embedded on the libraries.alfred.edu website. If you see this box pop up on the AU Libraries website, it\u2019s not an AI bot-there\u2019s a live human on the other side ready to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}