Scott This reference may be useful ... Janes, J. 2002, Digital Reference: Reference Librarians’ Experiences and Attitudes. Journal of the American Society...
Karen Winlaw
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Oct 1, 2002 8:32 am
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I also am new to this list, and I'm in the same boat. We are looking at offering public internet access next year so need all the help re pitfalls, dos and...
wendy
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Oct 1, 2002 9:03 am
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Bernie, In Alberta, the collaborative "Ask a Question" <http://www.lrc.gmcc.ab.ca/research/ask/> service includes both college and public libraries in Alberta....
Dinberg Donna
donna.dinberg@...
Oct 1, 2002 11:53 am
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I see one major problem with most weblogs, you have to go to them to read them. I am getting lazy and like information pushed in my direction. That is one...
Drew, Bill
drewwe@...
Oct 1, 2002 11:59 am
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Bernie, Here is a new initiative that just started in mid-September. It involves Penn State, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Carnegie Library of ...
Matthew R. Marsteller
matthewm@...
Oct 1, 2002 1:40 pm
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Before leaving the Univ. of Maine at Farmington about 3 months ago I was part of a committee that was planning a virtual reference service. When the system is...
Terrence R. Edwards
edwardst@...
Oct 1, 2002 1:43 pm
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There is one that is being started up in Maryland. Hopefully will be up and running in early 2003! ... Julie Arnold University of Maryland Libraries Science &...
Julie Arnold
jh276@...
Oct 1, 2002 1:48 pm
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... You can use AmphetaDesk (http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/) that will pull together headlines from blogs, news services and other sources you choose, ...
Ian Winship
ian.winship@...
Oct 1, 2002 1:58 pm
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What about 24/7? See http://www.247ref.org/communities.htm for a list of participating libraries. Ann Grafstein, MLS, PH.D. Coordinator of Library Instruction...
Ann J Grafstein
LIBRFAJG@...
Oct 1, 2002 2:00 pm
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The Maryland statewide service will be called "AskUsNow!" and be available 24/7. By the end of October we should have a good idea of how many academics,...
Joe
joe@...
Oct 1, 2002 2:03 pm
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I believe the ideal BLOG would send me headlines with links to stories once or twice a day into my e-mail, allow me to post to the blog via an e-mail address,...
Drew, Bill
drewwe@...
Oct 1, 2002 2:07 pm
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And QandA NJ too. Cynthia *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Cynthia McClellan, MLS mailto: mcclelcs@... Public Services Librarian...
Cynthia McClellan
mcclelcs@...
Oct 1, 2002 2:07 pm
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Roboblogs? Blogs of blogs? Besterman would be proud! Matt --On Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:56 PM +0100 Ian Winship ... Matthew R. Marsteller Physics and Math...
Matthew R. Marsteller
matthewm@...
Oct 1, 2002 2:12 pm
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Here in New Jersey we have www.qandanj.org. It is a 1 year old program consisting of public libraries, community colleges, and others. According to the...
Alisen Vallejo
avallejo@...
Oct 1, 2002 3:08 pm
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Bernie, the 24/7 Reference Project involves both: http://www.247ref.org/ or http://www.asknow.org/ . I saw someone post the MCLS url but wanted to add the urls...
Gillian L. Davis
gillianldavis@...
Oct 1, 2002 3:10 pm
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Blogging is just a technical tool--so it's hard to say what an "ideal blog" would look like. However, lii.org offers its indexers a daily blog mailing via...
Karen G. Schneider
kgs@...
Oct 1, 2002 3:22 pm
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Hey it's great hearing about all these wonderful collaborations. Now, please tell us all how this works, in particular, how do academic librarians answer...
martin kesselman
martyk@...
Oct 1, 2002 3:40 pm
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Check out QandA Cafe and 24/7 in California. ... -- = = = %%%$$$%%% = = = Y. Diana Wu Reference Librarian Business/Economics Liaison San Jose State University ...
Diana Wu
dwu@...
Oct 1, 2002 4:33 pm
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Luminary Lectures @ Your Library presents "Surviving the Internet*." Irene E. McDermott, a Reference Librarian/Systems Manager at the San Marino Public Library...
Laura Gottesman
lgot@...
Oct 1, 2002 4:36 pm
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-- Mensaje Hi, this is an information of collaborative virtual reference in Spanish, I think that is very interesting for us. ...
Karely Carrion del Re...
karely@...
Oct 1, 2002 5:53 pm
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The state of Oregon is planning a multi-type system which should be running by March 2003. It will include academic, public and hopefully special libraries. ...
Donna Reed
donnare@...
Oct 1, 2002 6:01 pm
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From an international perspective, Karely Carrion from Monterrey Tec University in Sinaloa, Mexico shares the following link: ...
Catharine Cebrowski
cebrowski@...
Oct 1, 2002 6:03 pm
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Martin: In planning for a multi-type system here in Illinois, we are envisioning separate queues. To start there will be an Academic & General Queue, we hope...
Bruce Brigell
brigb@...
Oct 1, 2002 7:53 pm
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I'd like to hear from people who have attempted to classify the questions asked by virtual reference users, especially via "chat" or live virtual reference...
Sloan, Bernie
bernies@...
Oct 1, 2002 8:24 pm
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Greetings--my apologies for any cross-postings. I am delivering a paper soon on managing electronic reference collections. I am interested in the following...
KREPS, Dennis A.
DKreps@...
Oct 1, 2002 8:51 pm
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Hi all, The State of Kansas will be offering "KANAnswer" as a pilot starting in January. This will be a collaborative effort between academic and public...
Jan Guise
jan.guise@...
Oct 2, 2002 2:00 pm
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Bernie and all, Danianne Mizzy and I have done some additional research into this area. We analyzed "synchronous digital reference" patron queries by type,...
Matthew R. Marsteller
matthewm@...
Oct 2, 2002 2:14 pm
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We have done this, and are continuing to do this, here at Maryland. The copies of our slides from Computers in Libraries 2002 can be found at: ...
Julie Arnold
jh276@...
Oct 2, 2002 3:26 pm
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... From: "KREPS, Dennis A." <DKreps@...> To: <DIG_REF@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: [DIG_REF] electronic collection...
Bruce Whitham
whitham@...
Oct 2, 2002 4:05 pm
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I am interested whether anyone is doing finer grained subject classification of online reference queries. My students and I drew 10 samples from a public...