I spent way too much time in OPAL. At our library, we use email for the usual communications and also for the Ask-a-Librarian staffing slots.I have used IM in the past, when my children lived in Russia and letters were iffy; before they left for their two-year stint, they set up my home computer so that we could talk almost every day. It was so odd--we talked more when they were halfway around the world than we ever did when they lived at home!
While exploring OPAL, I visited a couple of Library of Congress exhibits--their printed ephemera and broadsides collection and an exhibit of book illustration from 1880-1930, which included some pioneeering female illustrators. These were available through the visual arts link on the OPAL offerings list.
This opens up too many possibilities...this is always a situation that freaks me out. Yikes--where's my Old Skool shield? the dragons are approaching.
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