Comments on: Email Woes … and the answer to my woes? http://librarygarden.net/2007/07/05/email-woes-and-the-answer-to-my-woes/ An ongoing conversation among librarians with differing perspectives (public, academic, school, consortial, youth) but one shared goal: ensuring the health and relevance of libraries. [insert your own gardening metaphor here] Fri, 17 May 2013 18:44:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Amy J. Kearns, MLIS http://librarygarden.net/2007/07/05/email-woes-and-the-answer-to-my-woes/#comment-2087 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:22:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/email-woes-and-the-answer-to-my-woes/#comment-2087 But even if we are not spending time being “nice” in our own emails, we still have to read all the other ones! ;-)

EVERYONE will have to stop the extra niceties in order for this to succeed.

I have one inbox that I was trying to keep to 50 at a time – no matter what – like you have yours at 100 – but miss a few days and it quickly swells to an unmanageable amount (this is a personal and fun inbox so it isn’t full of anything really important or for work or anything, and I have given up at this point b/c I think that one is over 500 now!)

I’m not sure what to do exactly – I’d love to find out as well…. Personally, I think my problem is a lot that I just try to keep too much in there… I’m pretty “on top” of dealing with them in a timely manner – I just keep almost everything! ;-)

]]> By: Janie L. Hermann http://librarygarden.net/2007/07/05/email-woes-and-the-answer-to-my-woes/#comment-2063 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:45:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/email-woes-and-the-answer-to-my-woes/#comment-2063 Thanks for replying Lisa.
I did finally manage to get my inbox below 1,000 yesterday, but it took way to much time for my liking.
I tried having certain messages go directly to file folders, but then I find I never get around to reading them or I miss a deadline.
As for being a little less verbose in my emails, I fear I am failing. I think the need to be polite is just a part of who I am.

]]> By: Lisa Coats http://librarygarden.net/2007/07/05/email-woes-and-the-answer-to-my-woes/#comment-2058 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:16:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/email-woes-and-the-answer-to-my-woes/#comment-2058 Janie, it looks like no one was willing to tackle replying to this post. Sorry about that since I’d love some suggestions myself! I am definitely too nice in my email exchanges. I still feel it’s an important mode of communication and I worry about sounding too terse or rude, and I even stress about my grammar. I’m a little more anal than you in the sense that I freak out if my In Box has more than 20 messages left at the end of a day. I try to reply, delete or file all of them that I can, but this does take a lot of time. I’ve taken to having listserv emails that are not crucial go directly into a file for later reading. Then, when I’m on the desk on a slow night, I go through them. That’s my only ‘suggestion’ however and I hope others will comment soon!

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