Are there any library-related IRC channels or chat forums?
Internet Relay Chat – IRC – is a multi-user, multi-channel chat system where people talk in real time in “channels” on separate networks of IRC servers. mIRC is the most popular IRC software, and the mIRC homepage, http://www.mirc.co.uk/, is a good place to go for general information on IRC. The IRChelp.org Internet Relay Chat (IRC) help archive, http://www.irchelp.org/ , is a great source of FAQs, tutorials, and channels lists for the new IRC user. The Liszt multi-network IRC search engine can help you locate relevant channels through keyword searches across all the major IRC networks, http://www.liszt.com/chat/ . Multi-user Object Oriented – MOO – is an environment based on the MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) concept. MOOs are interactive systems accessible through telnet by many users at the same time. Unfortunately, both The Internet Public Library Moo, http://www.ipl.org/moo/ , and the Lost Library of MOO, are off-line, but most of the documents, tutorials, manuals, etc. of the Lost Libr
