Welcome to our new centralized chat forum.

(java applet at the bottom of this page) 




Below you will find links to all our current Spotlight genre areas, in each section you will find a chat schedule if one is available. Check back often as we are always adding new areas. Library archives for each genre's chats will be posted under the genre's spotlights pages.

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Anyone wishing to be a guest speaker or if you are an agent, editor, etc. and would like to be scheduled for a chat or spotlight in the future please contact Carol Castellanos at spotlights@simegen.com

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE:
1. TO JOIN Type your nickname where it says "guest" 

Then go to the drop down menu next to the word channel click on room that your chat is being held in.. Then hit connect.

2.Since each chat is being held by the genre gatemaster or the person conducting that genre's spotlights some chats may be moderated while others are not. For the unmoderated chats I ask that you give common courtesy when in the chat rooms.
For moderated chats or if you would like to have the second window to hold any side discussion then you go to the drop down list again and click on one of the #talk rooms. Then hit connect this will open a second window.

3. In AOL 4.0 or 5.0 -- click on the tool bar at the top of your screen MY AOL, then click Preferences, WWW, Security, Custom..... scroll down the Custom screen to Microsoft VM, and under that JAVA PERMISSIONS, set to LOW SECURITY (that's what I use, not sure whether MEDIUM would work for our pages) You can switch it back when you're not in our chatroom. But it's better to get a good ANTI-VIRUS software such as Norton or MacAffee (however they spell it) which protects from all sorts of other things.


IF YOU GET ERRORS WITH THE JAVA WINDOW BELOW TRY THE FOLLOWING LINK TO GET INFORMATION ON THE mIRC SOFTWARE. WHICH IN MY OPINION IS MUCH MORE RELIABLE THEN THE WEBPAGE CHAT ROOMS:

Alternate Logon Methods, including mIRC software

If you are seeing this, your browser either has JAVA turned off, or cannot support JAVA. 

Software:
Debian IRC server , apIRC .





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