FW: [genealib] Live chat reference service for LC Local History and Genealogy

[Laurie Mahaffey]

This is a message from CTLS-L. Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the entire list. --------------------------------------------------------- (Exciting news from LC…forwarded from the Librarians serving Genealogists list. –L.)   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:46 PM To: Librarians Serving Genealogists Subject: [genealib] Live chat reference service for LC Local History and Genealogy   The following message is being posted to GENEALIB at the request of Patrick Timony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), QuestionPoint team, Library of Congress: *** The Local History and Genealogy Reading Room at the Library of Congress is now open for live chat reference service.  Along with ten other LC reading rooms, Local History and Genealogy is open from 2pm to 3pm EST - every day, M-F.  They accept research-oriented questions and have the world's premier collections of U.S. and foreign genealogical and local historical publications. The Library's genealogy collection began as early as 1815 when Thomas Jefferson's library was purchased.  The chat service features text chat and URL sharing and is soon to add an enhanced communications package including Voice, Video and Application Sharing.  The 11 LC reading rooms featuring chat from 2 to 3, M-F are: *    Geography and Maps *    Motion Pictures *    Manuscripts *    Recorded Sound *    Science *    Local History and Genealogy *    American Memory *    Business *    Prints and Photographs *    Humanities and Social Sciences *    Serials and Government Publications Go to http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ and click on any reading room.  An email form will open up with a chat button on the right that connects to a live librarian.  The enhanced communications package is a result of collaboration between LC, OCLC, and Convey Systems, developer of "On Demand" customer service software for the Internet. ---   You are currently subscribed to genealib as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l For information on CTLS-L please visit: http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm