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Re: Cooperative Reference - A Pioneering Venture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joan Goodkind)
Tue May 8 20:01:21 2001
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 09:50:19 -0400
From: Joan Goodkind <goodkind@SIMONS-ROCK.EDU>
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Well I don't know about getting a question answered but I don't seem able
to even submit our "profile" information. I have tried three times (to
submit name, email, institution name, country and time-zone) and each time
I get asked to resubmit. Also I can't locate any information about pricing
of the service.
Joan Goodkind
Library Director
Simon's Rock College of Bard
WHERE'S THE BEST PLACE TO GET A QUESTION ANSWERED ON THE WEB?
>
>
> Wouldn't it be great if most people answered this question, "At the
> library!"? Services like AskJeeves, Northern Light, and Google
> proliferate, but how many of their users' questions are answered
> completely? Accurately?
>
> Wouldn't it be great if you could participate in a pioneering
> collaborative service that provides quality, authoritative reference
> service by professional reference librarians 24 hours a day, 7 days a
> week, 365 days a year? A service that will position your library as
> the first place your patrons turn to for quality information on the
> Internet.
>
> Now you can! The Library of Congress, OCLC Online Computer Library
> Center, Inc., and over 80 participating institutions are collaborating
> to make this vision a reality. LC and OCLC, at the forefront of
> library cooperation efforts for over three decades in shared cataloging
> and resource sharing, are now beginning a brand new era in cooperative
> reference services. The Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS)
> is a pioneering new service that will provide professional reference
> service to researchers - anywhere, anytime - through an international,
> digital network of libraries and related institutions. Librarians will
> assist their users by connecting to the CDRS to send questions that are
> best answered by expert staff. A large searchable archive of previous
> questions and answers will also be available to CDRS users.
>
>
> For more information on how to become a founding member in this
> exciting project, go to
> <http://www.oclc.org/services/reference/cdrs.shtm > or
> <http://www.loc.gov/cdrs >
>
> Stop by the Library of Congress and OCLC booths at ALA Annual in San
> Francisco to learn more about CDRS and its information sessions during
> the conference.
