Week 8: Answer Boards and Social Searching

Answer boards were an interesting concept but I don't think there was much for us as a public library to become involved with. I can see libraries using the answerboard concept to aid them in their tasks but not as a provider answering the questions. Realtime answering would be a problem and we already offer a facility for people to send emails with questions. Perhaps the larger services at a State and National Level could involve themselves with this but we do not have the staff numbers to adequately provide and monitor this type of service.