uniref.org blog

IU and ChaCha partner to create first of its kind academic search service
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/6102.html
(JK told this news to me. Thanks, JK!)

ChaCha: search + brainpower | Simple Access, Better Answers
http://www.chacha.com/
(Human-Guided Search: Real-time Chats + Search Results by humans at this time. I tried this service tonight. From a view point of search engines, that was a new experience. I would like to support any attempt at novelty. But it was a little bit difficult for me to have a chat to explain what I really want only with short texts, to estimate the results given by the guide continuously, and to tell what I was feeling in a polite manner, at once in addition. Of course, most chat-based systems have these characteristics.)

Answer Board Librarians
http://answerboards.wetpaint.com/

Slam the Boards! - Answer Board Librarians
http://answerboards.wetpaint.com/page/Slam+the+Boards%21

Something will happen on September 10th.

Jo Kibbee
Librarians without Borders? Virtual Reference Service to Unaffiliated Users
Virtual service, real data: results of a pilot study
She is one of the best librarians that I have met. She knows many things about theories and practices of digital reference services.
Additionally she is very kind to foreigners like me. The good librarian is always on the side of the socially vulnerable.

The uniref.org has launched a new site “uniref.org cms” which was created with the content management system “XOOPS Cube“.
There will be some experimental services on this site.
In the beginning, I have started to collect the information about reference services and am offering the RSS collection of journals on reference services now.
Check it out!

Wikipedia:Reference desk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reference+service
   (keywords: reference, service   …noisy,again)

Incidentally,

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=library
   (keyword: library)

Flickr: Search
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=reference+services&m=text
  (keyword: reference,services…noisy,but interesting)

Flickr: Search
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=reference+services+library&m=te xt
  (keyword: reference,services,library)

College of Information: Charles R. McClure
http://www.ii.fsu.edu/~cmcclure/

People: Bio Information
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=lcsmith
The Virtual Reference Experience: Integrating Theory into Practice by R. David Lankes, Joseph Janes, Linda C. Smith, and Christina M. Finneran, Editors - Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. - generate
http://www.neal-schuman.com/db/8/478.html

Home [QuestionPoint]
http://www.questionpoint.org/
   (Collaborating with Library of Congress)
Virtual reference [OCLC - Topics and trends]
http://www.oclc.org/community/topics/virtualreference/

   (I am really, not virtually, at OCLC today!)