Thursday, April 10, 2008

Week 8 Answer boards and social searching

Slam the boards is where reference librarians are answering questions on popular sites such as Yahoo Answers, WikiAnswers etc. They are doing this to show what skills they have in answering questions and to let people know that librarians provide reference services. What a great way to help people and promote the library at the same time.

I think it is possible to do this in our library. Maybe have an answer board on our website and where customers can rate or review items in the collection and services that we have. We do have a comments book so patrons do comment on our service but nowhere, where they can review and rate books/items.

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