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4209	Note: Wordpad produces Word-compatible documents also. ... To sign off from DIG_REF, send a message to LISTSERV@... with the command SIGNOFF...	JENNIFER A. HEISE jahb@...	Nov 1, 2001 1:39 pm
4210	Marcia, At Carnegie Mellon, practices vary by department and by which person is staffing the chat service. The couple of times I covered chat at the reference...	Paul Neuhaus neuhaus@...	Nov 1, 2001 1:45 pm
4211	You might also want to include answering the telephone while at the reference desk. Do you let the phone ring while you are talking to a patron? or do you...	Susan Weiss weisss@...	Nov 1, 2001 1:54 pm
4212	Dear Marcia, Thank you so much for sending me the messages, but I am sorry that at this point I may better be quiet and watch and learn. I am a student in MLS...	xing ying xing_ying@...	Nov 1, 2001 2:07 pm
4213	... I use print sources whenever I think that's the best source or if I can't think of an online source. ... I use these whenever possible because one of the...	Carol A. Singer singerc@...	Nov 1, 2001 2:10 pm
4214	In response to Susan Mitchell's request for a list of print reference sources that a librarian monitoring chat reference should have available, I'd like to...	Stephen Francoeur stephen_francoeur@...	Nov 1, 2001 3:15 pm
4215	Hi Marcia and others, We are doing dig ref at our reference desk. We also answer the phone there, but email is handled another way. Most of the day, we have at...	Kelly Broughton kmoore@...	Nov 1, 2001 3:18 pm
4216	Has anyone compiled a "ready refeence" list of Web sites ? Susan Rosenberg Reference Services Bankier Library Brookdale Community College Newman Springs Road ...	Susan Rosenberg srosenberg@...	Nov 1, 2001 3:30 pm
4217	Many libraries have a Ready Reference list, usually as part of a directory. We have one at http://www.nwrls.lib.fl.us/ready_ref.htm The Internet Public Library...	Sheila Bankhead bankhead@...	Nov 1, 2001 4:19 pm
4218	Hi Carol - Big changes at DOJ - I'm moving to Civil-L St branch but all Civil Libraries will be reporting to Kendra Swe! Carol W. will be special asst. to...	Plotkin, Mark Mark.Plotkin@...	Nov 1, 2001 4:39 pm
4219	Paul T. Jackson [mailto:trescottresearch@...] wrote on 31-October-2001 17:45: [snip] ... AmiPro is the name of the older versions of what is now...	Paolino, Bob Bob.Paolino@...	Nov 1, 2001 4:49 pm
4220	HI, I like having a copy of the Statistical Abstract of the US because i often find it easier and quicker to find the table number in the book than in the ...	Fiander, Michelle MichelleF@...	Nov 1, 2001 4:55 pm
4221	We have a ready reference list of websites at: http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/subj/readyref.html Edana McCaffery Cichanowicz Suffolk Cooperative Library System ...	Edana Cichanowicz ecichano@...	Nov 1, 2001 5:09 pm
4222	Ours is at http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/library/ref.html. Sarah Haman Reference Librarian Mendocino County Library Ukiah, Ca (707)463-4494 ...	Mendocino County Libr... mendoref@...	Nov 1, 2001 6:29 pm
4223	Hi, Currently, I staff the chat reference while serving the public reference. Most of the time both are slow during my time slot. With the live reference ...	Mendocino County Libr... mendoref@...	Nov 1, 2001 6:33 pm
4224	The one reference source I've found consistently more useful than the online source in Kelley Blue Book. I usually keep a World Book near by, a Statistical...	Mendocino County Libr... mendoref@...	Nov 1, 2001 6:40 pm
4225	This is true, but Wordpad has limited functionality. It is good for people who are "taking notes" while doing research, but it is not good for the customer...	Donna Reed donnare@...	Nov 1, 2001 6:52 pm
4226	Please excuse duplicate postings! Dear dig-reffers: My colleague Sarah G. Wenzel and I will be discussing the marketing of virtual reference services at the...	Lisa R. Horowitz lisah@...	Nov 1, 2001 7:51 pm
4227	Janet Once we are truly up and running - should we be doing something like this? Frances ... From: Lisa R. Horowitz [mailto:lisah@...] Sent: Thursday,...	Frances Schlesinger Frances.Schlesinger@...	Nov 1, 2001 8:01 pm
4228	Just a brief note in response to Stephen Francoeur's suggestion to bear in mind library type when considering a list of print reference sources. I can't speak...	Nemer, Ronna ronna.nemer@...	Nov 1, 2001 8:21 pm
4229	Yes, yes, oh yes! It is very important to market the services. Users don't expect this type of service from a library, but love it once they stumble across...	Jana Ronan ronan@...	Nov 1, 2001 9:10 pm
4230	We do live reference, telephone reference and email at the reference desk. It sometimes takes a bit of juggling between the telephone and the person in front...	Roxann Silbaugh rsilbaugh@...	Nov 1, 2001 9:53 pm
4231	As others have pointed, there are lots of Reference Lists on the Internet. Lots of public and university libraries have them on their web sites. Here are a...	Roger Cockerline rogerc@...	Nov 1, 2001 9:55 pm
4232	... resume. I agree that it does not have all the features of the "Big Four," and one relatively important thing that it lacks is automatic columns for...	Paolino, Bob Bob.Paolino@...	Nov 1, 2001 9:59 pm
4233	Perhaps--we have ways to go to be up and running--maybe at the beginning of the spring semester JS ... From: Frances Schlesinger...	Janet Stewart Janet.Stewart@...	Nov 1, 2001 10:22 pm
4234	Because I was consolidating the various responses to the "ready reference" site question, I figured I could share the consolidated list with the group. I also...	Paolino, Bob Bob.Paolino@...	Nov 1, 2001 10:28 pm
4235	Lisa, What do you think of using the power of "word of mouth"? One idea could be to spread words through online discussion lists of targeted groups. For...	Jenny Zhan jenny@...	Nov 1, 2001 11:02 pm
4236	here are a few more from a list that is 3 years old, fred brose Virtual Reference Desks http://ansernet.rcls.org/libland/llref.htm RCLS Library Land:...	Fred Brose fbrose@...	Nov 1, 2001 11:09 pm
4237	The recent thread on digital reference publicity reminded me of the most significant sentence fragment I've run across while reading about digital reference...	Sloan, Bernie bernies@...	Nov 1, 2001 11:38 pm
4238	You also can't pre-set double-spacing in WordPad. I tell patrons that they'd better try to use Word if they need this, but some of them are intimidated by all...	Mark Wilson MWilson@...	Nov 2, 2001 12:06 am

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