http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog Florida's online reference project, managed by Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC). Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:26:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/11/12/visual-of-our-questions/ One of the wonderful aspects of Ask a Librarian is the collaborative nature of the service, which allows the handful of librarians actively staffing the desk to help patrons from across the state of Florida.  Because of this collaborative nature, patrons sometimes need referrals to their local libraries in order to satisfy ... http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/11/11/tgif-tips-110708-issue-6/ We are working on the Ask a Librarian Marketing Plan for 2008-2009 and I would like your help. To bring you up to speed on recent AaL marketing efforts, here is what we have been up to: - The Director's Chair YouTube Contest - We mailed info packets containing information about AaL, ... http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/11/04/ask-a-librarian-marketing-plan/ What a great month! We survived and are thriving after the migration. We answered 5,039 questions last month.  This breaks down to: Local Desks = 959 Collaborative Live Chat Sessions = 2,554 Academic Live Chat Sessions= 406 E-mail Sessions = 1,120 A pdf summary of October is available here:  aal-stat-report-oct-08 A report of usage by zip code ... http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/11/04/october-statistics/    "The Director's Chair" is our annual video contest where Florida high school students can submit a 30-second video promoting Ask a Librarian for a chance to win some great prizes, and we are excited to announce that we just received our first entry!  You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/group/thedirectorschair.  Are your teen/YA groups ... http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/10/31/tgif-tips-103108-issue-5/ I am excited to announce we received are first entry last night at: http://www.youtube.com/group/thedirectorschair Are your teen groups working on entries?  Don't forget to promote The Director's Chair on your web site and programming.   Banners and icons for your web site and MySpace pages as well as a downloadable pdf of our ... http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/10/31/the-directors-chair-2/ We've gotten some great responses through the Ask a Librarian staff survey!  We've had wonderful comments, questions, and insights regarding your experiences with the new software, and we will address many of those in this and upcoming issues of TGIF Tips.  (If you haven't yet completed the survey, please visit ... http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/10/29/tgif-tips-oct-24-2008-issue-4-previous-issue/ Things are really moving along with the new Ask a Librarian software!  More and more staff are adding their library names behind their initials, which helps those staffing the desk to know which libraries are currently logged in.  The ability to see which staff have patrons is at the top of our ... http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/10/29/tgif-tips-oct-17-2008-issue-3-previous-issue/ Tell us what you think about Ask a Librarian! Please take a few minutes to complete the following survey within the next week: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Y9e7XBNGbg0dO45lUcMAvA_3d_3d Thanks! http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/10/21/tell-us-what-you-think-about-ask-a-librarian/ Calling all Florida high school students! Make your directorial debut with The Director’s Chair YouTube contest What is The Director’s Chair? The Director’s Chair is a video contest for Florida high school students. Create a 30-second video promoting Ask a Librarian for the chance to win a digital video camera, a digital camera or ... http://www.tblc.org/askalibrarianblog/2008/10/20/steal-this-blog-entry-the-directors-chair/