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[DIG_REF] A Question about Digital Reference Statistics   Message List  
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Re: [DIG_REF] A Question about Digital Reference Statistics

Buff et al... just a thought, FWIW: do you think there would be
interest/support for a community-built-and-maintained structure for
such a directory?

Seems to me that a wiki might have some potential as a platform for
such a project.

Luke

On 6/30/05, Hirko, Buff <bhirko@...> wrote:
> Funny you should ask. At the RUSA MARS Virtual Reference Committee
> meeting at ALA on Sunday, one of the projects we accepted was the
> creation of an online index to all of the chat ref services in libraries
> across the country (and globe, eventually). The extant indexes, such as
> those created by Stephen Francoeur, Bernie Sloan and Gerry McKeirnan,
> are all badly out of date. Unfortunately, it will take us a while to
> create a new list.

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Hi all, I'm looking for the most recent statistics about digital reference services in libraries, such as the number of libraries that provide email reference...
Lili Luo
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Jun 30, 2005
4:58 pm

Buff et al... just a thought, FWIW: do you think there would be interest/support for a community-built-and-maintained structure for such a directory? Seems to...
Luke Rosenberger
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Jun 30, 2005
6:06 pm

... I was thinking along these lines, as well--some place that wasn't one person's project. There is still some management overhead with a wiki, of course. ...
K.G. Schneider
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Jun 30, 2005
9:45 pm

Funny you should ask. At the RUSA MARS Virtual Reference Committee meeting at ALA on Sunday, one of the projects we accepted was the creation of an online...
Hirko, Buff
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Jun 30, 2005
6:06 pm

Right on, Luke--we do want to make it possible for community building/wiki-type updating. But it will be a bit complicated, of course. This was only one of...
Hirko, Buff
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Jun 30, 2005
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I'm waiting for our committee co-chairs (Joe Thompson and Jana Ronan) to weigh in. I think they're still returning from ALA. This is barely at the idea...
Hirko, Buff
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Jun 30, 2005
9:48 pm

Yes, as Buff said - barely out of the idea stage, but I think allowing libraries and cooperatives to submit and maintain their own information will need to...
Joseph Thompson
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Jun 30, 2005
10:18 pm

Hate to be a pain, but if we are going to do this right and collaboratively...is there a reason to limit it to chat services? ... To sign off from DIG_REF,...
R. David lankes
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Jul 1, 2005
1:45 am

Dave has a point. There are some academic libraries doing away with in-person reference and shifting to so-called "research consultations." Maybe we should...
Matthew R. Marsteller
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Jul 1, 2005
2:29 pm

I think this would be very helpful -- the library I recently left just went through a process to adopt this shift, and I had a great deal of difficulty finding...
Rudy Leon
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Jul 1, 2005
2:44 pm

We also could do it at the Reference Extract site. The Directory supports folks submitting links, and we can have multiple editors. Not to mention if they have...
R. David lankes
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Jul 1, 2005
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Librarian (Virtual Reference) Location: RIO SALADO COLLEGE Entry Range: $39,628 - $65,267 Department: Instruction Supervisor: Karen Mills Work Calendar: 9...
Shelle Witten
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Jul 1, 2005
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... Also more from the peanut gallery, Personally, I never looked at Bernie's or Stephen's list and did anything with it except say "gosh, that's a long list"....
TUCKER-RAYMOND Caleb
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Jun 30, 2005
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Besides being outdated, the lists of chat reference services offered by Stephen, Gerry, and myself have pretty much always been incomplete. I can't speak for...
Sloan, Bernie
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Jul 1, 2005
4:48 pm

I agree with David...such a list needs to be comprehensive and representative of the universe of "virtual reference", including sites that offer e-mail, web...
Sloan, Bernie
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Jul 1, 2005
5:17 pm

Yes, this is an ambitious task taken on by the RUSA MARS/RSS Virtual Reference Committee. I agree with Matt, David and Bernie that comprehensive indexing of...
Alex Hodges
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Jul 1, 2005
7:20 pm

A big question is do you have existing resources to leverage? For example, there are two outdated directories--not great, but a start--but for a larger ...
K.G. Schneider
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Jul 1, 2005
8:03 pm

Folks, what we are beginning to define here is not so much an index but a directory or registry of (electronic, but perhaps all?) reference services. In that...
Dinberg Donna
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Jul 3, 2005
2:22 pm

Lili, http://www.liswiki.com/wiki/List_of_libraries_providing_virtual_reference_services This is a new list of library chat services. It is a part of a Wiki, ...
John Hubbard
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Jul 13, 2005
4:04 am

Hi John, A great source and a good opportunity for me to learn about wikis. You have mentioned two of the UK collaborative services we manage here in the UK,...
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Jul 13, 2005
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