Nationwide Event to draw attention to Virtual Reference

On September 10th,  librarians across the country will be logging into commercial services like Yahoo! Answers, Ask MetaFilter, Wikipedia Reference Desk, or Amazon’s Askville, to answer as many questions as possible to promote libraries and virtual reference.

If you are interested in the event, Library Journal had a recent article with some details.

If your interested in participating in the event, check out the wiki. Further, Bill Pardue one of the coordinators has been working with Yahoo Answers to get librarians fast-tracked to the ranking of ‘knowledge partner’. To have him fast-track your login, send Bill Pardue (bpardue at ahml.info) your name, e-mail and Yahoo screen name by Friday, 9/7, 11 a.m. Chicago time (CDT). The hope is to educate many who “don’t even realize that libraries offer reference services. Let’s surprise and delight them with our quality” according to the web site. 

Please let us know if you participate. We would love to have Florida Librarians well represented.