FYI.
Forwarded from uls-l:
The next installment of the ACRL OnPoint Chat series,
"Are Reference Desks Passé?," will take place today, Wednesday, July
29 at 12:00 p.m. Central time (10:00 a.m. Pacific | 11:00 a.m. Mountain
| 12:00
p.m. Central | 1:00 p.m. Eastern).
Many academic libraries are eliminating reference desks and
focusing on referrals, roaming reference, satellite reference and/or
virtual
reference instead. This session will explore the causes and
consequences of
this trend. During this OnPoint chat, consider the following questions:
(1)
What is driving the trend toward elimination of reference desks? (2)
Are
alternate services sufficient to meet patrons' needs? (3) Without
desks, how do
reference staff stay in touch with patrons' needs and wants? Kansas
State
University's Danielle Theiss-White, General Reference Coordinator,
Jason
Coleman, Service Coordinator, and Laura Bonella, Reference Generalist,
will
convene this OnPoint chat.
ACRL OnPoint is a live series of informal monthly text-based
chat sessions. All ACRL OnPoint chats are free and open to the public.
Sessions
are unmoderated, one hour in length and take place in a Meebo chat room
(no
audio or video). Chats are limited to 80 concurrent participants and
will be
delivered on a first-come-first-served basis. For additional
information,
including access information, visit the OnPoint website at www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/onpoint/index.cfm.
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ACRL is a division of the American Library Association,
representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians and
interested
individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in
North
America that develops programs, products and services to meet the
unique needs
of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher
education community to understand the role that academic libraries play
in the
teaching, learning and research environments.
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