Slamming the Boards@Week 8

Having gone into the links suggested in week 8, I've realised more and more people are using answer boards now. How serious is this information? It seems most of these web forums now have ways of measuring the quality of the answers.

I liked the idea of slamming the boards for us Librarians. We are not confining ourselves within the walls of our libraries. We are heard and sought after across the globe. Most libraries have the service of 'Ask a librarian' through their library website, but those answers might be limited to one person's view. With slamming the boards professional librarians will produce answers on popular Answer boards, still keeping their image of reference services.

I checked out the Answer Board Librarians wiki and went to the Exemplary Answers section and discovered the diversity of the questions and the many answers and ratings. I also checked on Signatures and Tag lines that promote libraries. Also, it was good to add/edit those tag lines. The best for me was "Librarians. Make them your FAVORITE search engines"

Answer Board Librarians can be a good way of promoting your library (In Signatures and Tag lines one can be directed to your library website) and to project the image, we Librarians are well into all these web technologies - the more hi-tec version of the Reference Librarian I suppose. Just like the Amazon website, patrons can rate, review books in your collection or even your services!

On a lighter note, I stumbled upon this delicious recipe on taste.com.au

Here's the picture and the link below.

Mocha Chocolate Brownies

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/17299/mocha+chocolate+brownies

Why not add this recipe to your del.icio.us account.

To all Librarians, Happy cooking while slamming the Boards!