<div dir="ltr">Hi Nono,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for starting the sharing of the toolkits. Here's the direct link to the AskUsNow! toolkits: <a href="http://askusnow.info/staff/marketing/students/toolkits">http://askusnow.info/staff/marketing/students/toolkits</a>. </div><div> </div><div>At this time, the schools simply link to the service through their school, library, or <a href="http://www.askusnow.info">www.askusnow.info</a> 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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Burling, Nono <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nono.burling@sos.wa.gov" target="_blank">nono.burling@sos.wa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5-gN8jl3wgmWUtFU0lMak5MdWc/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Here’s a link to my school visit document.</a> I see that I give thanks and credit at the end to Cathay.
</span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:rgb(31,73,125)">J</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Anyway great meeting today. I am so grateful to all of you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(69,85,108)">NONO BURLING,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(69,85,108)">Washington State Library | Office of the Secretary of State<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(69,85,108)">6880 Capitol Blvd SE, Tumwater, Washington<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(182,132,81)">w:</span><span style="color:rgb(69,85,108)"> 360-570-5576 |
</span><span style="color:rgb(182,132,81)">e:</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="mailto:nono.burling@sos.wa.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">nono.burling@sos.wa.gov</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> collaborative-vr [mailto:<a href="mailto:collaborative-vr-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank">collaborative-vr-<wbr>bounces@listsmart.osl.state.<wbr>or.us</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cathay Keough<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 12, 2017 12:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:collaborative-vr@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank">collaborative-vr@listsmart.<wbr>osl.state.or.us</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [collaborative-vr] Recording Link to Today's Meeting<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you again, everyone, for a great meeting today. Here is the link to the recording (about 1:20 in length):<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://delawarelibraries.adobeconnect.com/pftj3q81klia/?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=50133697b94ab1dce77ca0b1221070edc13d25738737ebfd0ffa773696487445" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">https://delawarelibraries.<wbr>adobeconnect.com/pftj3q81klia/</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And a ‘thank you’ to Tamara for taking on the hosting of our next meeting.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Have a great evening!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Cathay<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:gray">Cathay Keough<br>
Statewide Coordinator, Reference Services</span><span style="font-size:9pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:gray">Delaware Division of Libraries<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:gray">Executive Director, Delaware Library Association<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:gray">RUSA Conference Program Planning Chair 2017-18</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
<span style="color:gray">302-257-3014 (office)<br>
302-983-1430 (mobile)</span></span><span style="font-size:9pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:cathay.keough@lib.de.us" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">cathay.keough@lib.de.us</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://libraries.delaware.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">libraries.delaware.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:gray"><br>
</span><a href="http://answers.delawarelibraries.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">answers.delawarelibraries.org</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:gray">Delaware Library Association:
</span><a href="http://dla.lib.de.us" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">dla.lib.de.us</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:gray"><a href="http://delawarelibraries.org" target="_blank">delawarelibraries.org</a> • <a href="http://consortium.lib.de.us" target="_blank">consortium.lib.de.us</a> (staff)</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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