Regional Meeting Notes

Today was the final, Ask a Librarian Regional Group Meeting. There were 9 face-to-face meetings and 1 conference call. There will be a few follow-up phone calls but I thought I would go ahead and post the notes from all the meetings. I have put them together into this document:

AaL Regional Meeting Notes

As you can imagine, the meetings grew in content as they went along – as information from each meeting was integrated into the next, and as new news became available.

Some main ‘news’ items that have changed or developed since the first meeting in June:

- The academic desk hours will officially be 10am-4pm EST. The desk will debut the Tuesday following Labor Day (Sept 4th).

- Jennifer has added a monthly ‘Practice Day’ for Ask a Librarian. The second Tuesday of each month, we are encouraging everyone to login and practice in the training room.

- We have gone ahead and updated the user entry form for Ask a Librarian. Learn more, at this previous post.

- We will not be advertising with Facebook. Despite our initial information, the ads were becoming much more costly and complex then first thought. We have created a group on Facebook for Ask a Librarian. You’ll need an account to view and join. But, I don’t think it will have an impact like MySpace.

Please comment on the blog or to me personally via email, phone or IM on the meetings.

Thanks again to everyone who attended. Everyone really helped contribute to Ask a Librarian’s future direction.