Answer Boards

Slamming the Boards is FANTASTIC - more of us should do it

It's a great way to sharpen our skills, advertise libraries and Librarians to the wider community and convince upper upper upper management that we are viable and relevant to today's society

As one of the tags says - The Library is a resource, not a building. Librarians are where you are - online!

I think I'll see if I can gather a group from my library service together to start Slamming

Homework help is the most obvious use for this kind of thing in an internal way - kids could post their questions on OUR website and we would answer them on a rostered basis. This is a more direct technique than having them post on the international Internet sites and enables us to reply using specific examples from our own resources that the kids can then access easily simply by walking into their local branch library