[collaborative-vr] School visits document

Doreva Belfiore belfiore at hslc.org
Thu Jul 13 08:08:04 PDT 2017


These are wonderful resources. Thank you to all.

Best,

Doreva

On 7/12/2017 4:36 PM, Paul Chasen wrote:
> 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 <http://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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto:nono.burling at sos.wa.gov>
>
>     *From:* collaborative-vr
>     [mailto:collaborative-vr-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>     <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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto:cathay.keough at lib.de.us>
>
>     libraries.delaware.gov <http://libraries.delaware.gov>
>     answers.delawarelibraries.org <http://answers.delawarelibraries.org>
>
>     Delaware Library Association: dla.lib.de.us <http://dla.lib.de.us>
>
>     delawarelibraries.org <http://delawarelibraries.org> •
>     consortium.lib.de.us <http://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
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> <http://askusnow.info>
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Doreva Belfiore
Director of Library Services
HSLC
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