[collaborative-vr] School visits document

[Paul Chasen]

Hi Nono,

Thanks for starting the sharing of the toolkits.  Here's the direct link to
the AskUsNow! toolkits:
http://askusnow.info/staff/marketing/students/toolkits.

At this time, the schools simply link to the service through their school,
library, or www.askusnow.info website.  During a school year, we find out
how students access AskUsNow! as a part of their teacher's lesson plans and
enrichment activities.  Some schools prefer to promote the service for
after school hours.  This news may come from the schools themselves, or
their AskUsNow! points of contact.  When a school gives feedback about
AskUsNow!, it is one of the highlights of the day because the schools
probably feel better staying anonymous.

The partnership is free thanks to the IMLS LSTA Grant, but would require
the school librarian(s) to provide chat and/or do follow-up by email, to go
along with other commitments related to marketing, meetings, and the
quality of the service.

I have to give some of the AskUsNow! partners credit for building
partnerships with their local school systems or academic departments to
better promote reference services like AskUsNow!.  At the statewide level,
I work with my immediate supervisor to make AskUsNow! as visible as
possible to schools.  It's a tremendous, collaborative effort that
continues to be a project in development.

Paul

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Burling, Nono <nono.burling at sos.wa.gov>
wrote:

> Here’s a link to my school visit document.
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5-gN8jl3wgmWUtFU0lMak5MdWc/view?usp=sharing>
> I see that I give thanks and credit at the end to Cathay. J  This group
> is/was such a help and inspiration to me when I first started.  My idea was
> to provide the word document to our public libraries so they could
> customize it themselves.  I really wanted to encourage libraries and
> schools to partner up and the first few years worked hard on that-
> conference presentations, traveled and visited schools etc. But I never got
> much traction on that unfortunately.  Paul in MD do your schools actually
> participate in chat or do they just link to your service.  I believe in MD
> the service is still “free” which would make it much easier to get
> participation.
>
>
>
> Anyway great meeting today.  I am so grateful to all of you.
>
>
>
>
>
> *NONO BURLING,* *Outreach Librarian*
>
> Washington State Library | Office of the Secretary of State
>
> 6880 Capitol Blvd SE, Tumwater, Washington
>
> w: 360-570-5576 | e:nono.burling at sos.wa.gov
>
>
>
> *From:* collaborative-vr [mailto:collaborative-vr-
> bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] *On Behalf Of *Cathay Keough
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 12, 2017 12:07 PM
> *To:* collaborative-vr at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> *Subject:* [collaborative-vr] Recording Link to Today's Meeting
>
>
>
> Thank you again, everyone, for a great meeting today.  Here is the link to
> the recording (about 1:20 in length):
>
>
>
> *https://delawarelibraries.adobeconnect.com/pftj3q81klia/*
> <https://delawarelibraries.adobeconnect.com/pftj3q81klia/?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=50133697b94ab1dce77ca0b1221070edc13d25738737ebfd0ffa773696487445>
>
>
>
> And a ‘thank you’ to Tamara for taking on the hosting of our next meeting.
>
>
>
> Have a great evening!
>
> -Cathay
>
>
>
> Cathay Keough
> Statewide Coordinator, Reference Services
>
> Delaware Division of Libraries
>
> Executive Director, Delaware Library Association
>
> RUSA Conference Program Planning Chair 2017-18
> 302-257-3014 (office)
> 302-983-1430 (mobile)
>
> cathay.keough at lib.de.us
>
> libraries.delaware.gov
> answers.delawarelibraries.org
>
> Delaware Library Association: dla.lib.de.us
>
> delawarelibraries.org  •  consortium.lib.de.us  (staff)
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-- 
Paul Chasen
Statewide Coordinator, Maryland AskUsNow!
Enoch Pratt Free Library/SLRC
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD  21201
443-984-4955
pchasen at prattlibrary.org
<http://askusnow.info>
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