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RESOLVE TO TRY ASKAWAY FOR FREE, by LTLS Consultant Pat Boze

As you think about your resolutions for the New Year, why not resolve to make your library a great educational asset within your community?  AskAway is a way to expand reference services to your community and patrons 24/7.  Act now to take advantage of a FREE trial demonstration period from January 15 - May 15, 2008.  Your patrons and you will benefit from 24/7 access to a reference cooperative for all your questions.  There is no staffing required during the trial period and with only a start up of five hours of your staff time, you will have access for your patrons.

Transcripts and follow-up options allow you to further enhance your patrons’ reference services.  Contact Natalie Tagge (ntagge@ilsos.net) or access the website for more details http://www.askawayillinois.info/.

What AskAway users are saying……

  • “My sincere thanks, again, for the time you've taken to sort through the literature and identify books on the needed topics. … QuestionPoint is a terrific library service!”
  • “uve (sic) been helpful”
  • ”You’ve given me a wonderful list of resources; I’m sure I’ll be able to find all that I’m searching for and more.  I didn’t have any real luck with Amazon either. … I’ll be certain to pass the word around about how great you are there.”
  • “You have forever changed his life!!!!!!  Thank you for everything!!!!!!”
  • “Thank you very much. You’ve been a big helper!”
  • “Librarians are amazing. They share, they collaborate, they cooperate. They are a model for the rest of us.”
    “Thank you very much. You’ve been a big helper!”
  • “Yes! thank you so so much! I'm going to get an A+!!!”
  • “Great! Thank you much. You have been a great help.”
  • “THANKS!!!!”

Join the following LTLS area libraries, as well as hundreds of Illinois and Wisconsin libraries, in providing virtual reference service through AskAway.

  • Carle Foundation Hospital
  • Champaign Community Unit 4 Schools
  • Champaign Public Library
  • Community Unit School District #6 of Edgar County
  • Danville Area Community College
  • Eastern Illinois University
  • Hoopeston Public Library District
  • Illinois Fire Services Institute
  • Illinois Waste Management and Research Center
  • Lakeview College of Nursing Library
  • Mahomet Public Library District
  • Marshall Public Library
  • Newman Regional Library District
  • Paris Carnegie Public Library
  • Parkland Community College
  • Rantoul Public Library
  • Sarah Bush Lincoln Heath Center
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Urbana Free Library

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Take advantage of a FREE trial demonstration period from
January 15 - May 15, 2008.




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