More on being a librarian in a virtual community

I took Michael Stephens' suggestion to be more involved as a librarian in my favorite virtual community last week. This week, Jenny Levine the The Shifted Librarian, prompted me to take it a step farther.

The podcasts on the NEASIST Events blog are amazing (thanks to Greg of Open Stacks for pointing them out yesterday). I only miss the slides a little bit....One slide in Jenny's talk apparently showed a reference librarian offering his services for an hour on flickr, by way of a picture, of course. And he got a few questions!

My favorite virtual community, 43 Things, has a system for asking questions. They are called pleas for help. The users are actually asking the questions of people who have already completed the goal, so some are not really reference questions. I'm not going to touch the plea about how and when to move from indoor rock climbing to outdoor rock climbing, for example. But I would have done no worse on the question about where to sell a short story than the first person who responded (take a look at The Writers' Market).

There is an RSS feed for pleas for help. I subscribed and recommended a book to someone this morning.     #

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