After inviting the rest of the Reference e-list along I have spent the day Slamming! I'm currently exhausted and don't know if any of my answers have been chosen as 'Best Answer', but I'm hopeful.
I kept with my favourite category (Arts & Humanities - Books & Authors) and in the process discovered a great little cheat site called Spark Notes, with heaps of free online study guides.
I think it's time for more chocolate and a coffee to get me home.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Week 8 - answerboards & social searching
Okay, now I'm a big believer in the role Libraries and Librarians (esp. Reference Librarians) can play on the AnswerBoards. Aside from the fact that it's a bucket load of fun it's a huge learning experience. I must admit that I have learned so much more in the last 6 months about using the Internet as a reference tool than I have in the last 5 years.
I have been Slamming since September 2007 - some months I get right into it for the whole day and answer as many questions as I can, other months I'll be lucky to answer 1. But the way I look at it, out there on those AnswerBoards are people who aren't coming into the library to ask their questions (in person or remotely) so therefore they are still my client base beacuse I never know from one question to the next just where that person is from and it may be that they are in fact one of my local constituents. But even if they weren't they are still asking questions and helping people find the answers to their questions is 1. what I do, 2. what I'm trained to do, and 3. what I'm jolly good at doing. So I tend to think that on the 10th of every month someone out there is getting the benefit of an experienced and qualified answer to their question - that, and they are being taken seriously, their question is valued.
On a side not, getting your answer chosen as 'Best Answer' is the absolute best buzz!!
Beyond all this though, Slam the Boards means I am part of an online community of like minded Librarians seeking to help as many people as we can around the world find answers and learn that Libraries are great places and Librarians are great people. WikiAnswers has recently come on board to give all registered Slam the Boards Librarians contributor status on WikiAnswers which further cements the quality of answer given and the validity of its contribution.
To further cement the value of the monthly Slam, the School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina is taking on a study of Yahoo Answers to see whether or not the answers provided by and tagged by Librarians are being chosen 'Best Answer' over other answers provided - to see whether or not we are in fact providing value for service and being recognuised for it.
Current count there were 106 participating Libraries/Librarians - including 2 from Australia and 1 from New Zealand.
I have been Slamming since September 2007 - some months I get right into it for the whole day and answer as many questions as I can, other months I'll be lucky to answer 1. But the way I look at it, out there on those AnswerBoards are people who aren't coming into the library to ask their questions (in person or remotely) so therefore they are still my client base beacuse I never know from one question to the next just where that person is from and it may be that they are in fact one of my local constituents. But even if they weren't they are still asking questions and helping people find the answers to their questions is 1. what I do, 2. what I'm trained to do, and 3. what I'm jolly good at doing. So I tend to think that on the 10th of every month someone out there is getting the benefit of an experienced and qualified answer to their question - that, and they are being taken seriously, their question is valued.
On a side not, getting your answer chosen as 'Best Answer' is the absolute best buzz!!
Beyond all this though, Slam the Boards means I am part of an online community of like minded Librarians seeking to help as many people as we can around the world find answers and learn that Libraries are great places and Librarians are great people. WikiAnswers has recently come on board to give all registered Slam the Boards Librarians contributor status on WikiAnswers which further cements the quality of answer given and the validity of its contribution.
To further cement the value of the monthly Slam, the School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina is taking on a study of Yahoo Answers to see whether or not the answers provided by and tagged by Librarians are being chosen 'Best Answer' over other answers provided - to see whether or not we are in fact providing value for service and being recognuised for it.
Current count there were 106 participating Libraries/Librarians - including 2 from Australia and 1 from New Zealand.
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