Comments on: email @ your library, and a request

By: lis.dom » Blog Archive » doing what we can do

lis.dom » Blog Archive » doing what we can do — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:29:22 +0000

[...] to read for story time, or how to do better outreach to the Spanish-speaking population, or how to teach people to use e-mail, or how to fit a thorough bibliographic instruction into one hour slot. That’s in no way [...]

By: nemo

nemo — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:16:28 +0000

There’s also E-Mail for Dummies in its second edition.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:48:53 +0000

funny you should mention email basics today. i helped two people with yahoo! mail’s (recently changed?) interface today.

By: glAmaZon Librarian

glAmaZon Librarian — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:43:01 +0000

There is a book called Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and home by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe. This book is a great guide to email etiquette and how to write good (and how not to write bad) emails.

There is also a new edition of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Computer Basics which has a chapter on setting up email for the first time, adding pictures, attaching documents, etc.

Hope that helps at least a little bit.

Beth

By: Marianaria

Marianaria — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:33:28 +0000

Both the Idiots and Dummies series have books on email. I found them on http://www.worldcat.org with searches for Idiots e-mail and dummies e-mail. The trick is to use a hyphen for email.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:23:26 +0000

This isn’t exactly a pamplet, but go to my website (http://www.scottdouglas.org/documents) and I’ve uploaded the two handouts that I give out when I teach email basics each month. Feel free to print the out or alter them in anyway.

It doesn’t cover attachments or anything advance, but it will get patrons with limited computer skills an email.

By: The Eeyore Librarian

The Eeyore Librarian — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:48:56 +0000

A pamphlet on how-to email sounds like a wonderful idea for a student project…