Tag: cooperative reference
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Discussing a National Virtual Reference Service
I really wish I was going to ALA Midwinter this week just so I could participate in the discussion hosted by OCLC on what a national virtual reference service might look like. Here is the description of the event on the registration page for it: Sunday, January 9 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, San Diego…
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Another digital reference blog
How could I have missed another blog with a name just ever so slightly different from mine? The MINITEX Digital Reference blog has archived posts going back to July 2006. I wish I had been subscribing to the blog from its inception, as there’s been a lot of good content published in the past year.…
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Planning for the future of California’s statewide reference service
Sarah Houghton-Jan recently remarked on the lack of discussion over recently released reports on the future of state-funded reference services in California. Check out her comments and the documents she links to.
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Collaborative email reference at Queens Library
For those of you who aren’t from New York, it may be news that the city actually has three separate public library systems: New York Public Library (with branches in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx) Brooklyn Public Library (with branches only in Brooklyn) Queens Library (with branches only in Queens) All three systems are…
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2007 Collaborative Virtual Reference Symposium
Registration is now open for the 2007 Collaborative Reference Symposium, which will be held in Denver on July 31 and August 1 this year. I hope it gets blogged well by attendees, as I’ll be unable to attend.