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Help Shape the Future of the Collaborative Digital Reference Service!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Digiref LC)
Wed May 30 20:06:39 2001
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:54:41 -0400
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CDRS Interactive Sessions!
You've probably heard about the new Collaborative Digital Reference
Service --- we are a group of libraries and librarians from around the
world working together to develop world-class digital reference services
on the Net. We have over 100 members now, and they include libraries of
all types from the large national libraries such as the Library of
Congress and the British Library, academic libraries like Cornell and the
University of Illinois, as well as public libraries of all shapes and
sizes. But that is not enough. At CDRS, we take the word 'collaborative'
very seriously --- and that is why we would like to hear from you --- the
thousands of reference librarians, library directors, and others with an
interest in digital reference who have not yet had an opportunity to share
your thoughts and opinions on this critical issue.
We would like invite all of you to join us for one of two live interactive
sessions called "What's It Worth to You: Collaborative Digital Reference
Service Interactive Sessions".
We will be convening these during the ALA Annual Conference in San
Francisco on Saturday, June 16th from 1:00-3:00 PDT and again from
3:30-5:30 PDT at the Holiday Inn Financial District, 750 Kearny Street,
3rd Floor: Chinese Culture Center.
These sessions are sponsored by CDRS, the Library of Congress, LSSI
Virtual Reference Services, and OCLC, and will give you an opportunity to
express your opinions on key issues using live real-time audience survey
technology. Here's the way it will work. We will first ask you to 'vote'
on a series of questions regarding CDRS and various ways it might be
packaged. You will cast your vote using an electronic handset similar to
those used in movie previews or by clicking on a Web form (more about that
in a minute). Voting results will be tabulated and displayed immediately,
and then we can all discuss what they might mean.
Now we really want to make sure that as many of you as possible have a
chance to attend these sessions ... so if you will not be coming to ALA,
you will still be able to attend a live, online version of the CDRS
Interactive Sessions using LSSI's Virtual Reference Software. The online
sessions will also be 'broadcast' from the Holiday Inn and will take place
at the same time as the live sessions. You will be able to vote on the
same questions the San Francisco audience is voting on and your results
will also be tabulated and displayed in real time. You will be able to
ask questions of the presenters using live chat, and we've got some fast
typists who will keep you up on the discussion taking place in the room.
So, remember, you now have two ways to participate ...
1. If you will be coming to San Francisco, and would like to join us live
'in the flesh' at the Holiday Inn, click here to register for the session
of your choice, on the OCLC site.
https://www3.oclc.org/app/cdrs/
2. If you are not coming to San Francisco and would like to join us live
and online click here to register on the LSSI site.
http://www.lssi.com/virtual/cdrs/
No matter how you join us, we want to thank you for helping to shape the
future of digital reference, and we are all looking forward to meeting you
... either in person, or online ... at the CDRS Interactive Sessions this
June.
Sincerely,
Your Colleagues at CDRS
