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2008 Best Practices Sessions:

December Best Practices Session: Thursday, December 18, 2008
Wisconsin hosts Adding AskAway link to multiple pages on your website: The Whys and Hows
AskAway WI and IL Business updates
Chat transcript review
Review of next year's schedule

Register for sessions and receive specific attendance instructions at
http://www.uwex.edu/ics/wlwreg/wlwwelcome.cfm
Select Wisconsin Library Services, then scroll down and select WiLS Virtual Reference Best Practices to register.
November Best Practices Session: Thursday, November 20, 10:30-12:00PM
Illinois hosts
Paula Rumbaugh from QuestionPoint will be presenting on QP reports and explaining how to utlize them
AskAway Illinois finalized pricing for 2009 will be discussed


October Best Practices Session: Thursday, October 23rd (rescheduled from October 16th), 10:30-12:00PM
Wisconsin hosts Register for sessions and receive specific attendance instructions at
http://www.uwex.edu/ics/wlwreg/wlwwelcome.cfm
Select Wisconsin Library Services, then scroll down and select WiLS Virtual Reference Best Practices to register.


September Best Practices Session: Thursday, September 18th, 10:30-12:00p.m.

Illinois hosts
2009 update, ILA AskAway information
Best practices chat follow-up reminder
Mary Wilkes Towner, Urbana Free Library Reference Librarian, will discuss answering virtual readers advisory questions and share sites to find quick and effective answers

August Best Practices Session: Thursday, August 21st, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Wisconsin hosts
• Business update and general best practices reminders
• Report on ALA
• Patron link to the QuestionPoint global knowledgebase
• Review of best practices for working with UK patrons
• Update on the public school test of AskAwayl
• Statistical reports
• Review of transcripts






July Best Practices Session: Thursday, July 17th, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Illinois will be hosting

• Business update
• General best practices reminders
• Helping patrons with genealogy questions
• Transcript reviews
• Update of the Illinois cooperative in post grant period



Also be sure to check previous best practices links on the AskAway site and on the Wisconsin AskAway Wiki.

Previous best practices:

May 15th: Jim "Laser" Hahn of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library will be discussing mobile learning
Also on the agenda:
AskAway Illinois pricing for 2009
Recap of the annual IOUG (Illinois OCLC Users Group) meeting

March 20th:
Charlotte Bruce of Olney College will discuss her experiences with AskAway and her incorporation of the Qwidget into Olney's services. She is one of the first Qwidget adopters in IL and will (I'm sure) have wisdom to share with those that are ready to build a Qwidget!
Ellen Schmid and Lynnette Singh of Geneva Public Library will discuss Practitioner to Practitioner Iming and Transferring questions while monitoring
AskAway IL post grant information (tentatively scheduled)


February 21: Thank you to AskAway WI for hosting and providing this information:
  • John Dey of the Racine Public Library will be our featured speaker on February 21st. He'll be talking about his work as a QuestionPoint backup librarian, and sharing information on the expectations placed on backup librarians, how they operate, and any tips and tricks he's picked up on juggling multiple questions as a backup librarian.
  • Review of statistics - current and annual from 2002 to 2007 and discussion of asking participating librarians how their libraries gather and share statistics,
  • Business update
  • PR Update
  • Review of chat transcripts.
    Register for sessions and receive specific attendance instructions at
    http://www.uwex.edu/ics/wlwreg/wlwwelcome.cfm
    Select Wisconsin Library Services, then scroll down and select WiLS Virtual Reference Best Practices to register.
    Also be sure to check previous best practices links on the AskAway site and on the Wisconsin AskAway Wiki.


    January 17 Illinois
    February 21 Wisconsin
    March 20 Illinois
    April 24 Wisconsin
    May 15 Illinois
    June 19 Wisconsin
    July 17 Illinois
    August 21 Wisconsin
    September 18 Illinois
    October 16 Wisconsin
    November 20 Illinois
    December 18 Wisconsin

    QP BP November 16 2007.ppt - Connie vonderHeide, Mark Beatty, Martha
    Berninger: effective use of legal resources, update on WI PR campaign, update on new widget technology

    Best Practicesoctoberchanges.ppt-Bruce Brigell, Natalie Tagge: doing
    effective follow-up, combatting spam and the importance of policy and profile pages

    QP BP AUG 07.ppt - Wisconsin hosted this best practice
    • 6/21/07--Loretta Broomfield----Free Web Sites to Help Library Staff Provide Excellent Reference Service.
    • 6/21/07--Deb Aggertt, Mark Beatty, Martha Berninger
    • 5/17/07--State Governments information portals and resources

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