[WEB4LIB] Reference service meets Ebay!

[Sloan, Bernie]

And then there are sites that offer such services for free, like:

http://www.expertcentral.com
http://www.allexperts.com 

Bernie Sloan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Kuntz [mailto:jkuntz at ansernet.rcls.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 9:20 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Reference service meets Ebay!


Take a gander at: http://www.inforocket.com/
then let me know if you are:
1) ROTFL at the lack of any quality assurances
2) Intrigued by the possibility of an income source for your library
3) Intrigued by the possibility of privately supplementing your meager
librarian salary
4) Concerned that the general public will actually use services like this
(and other "Ask an Expert" services of questionable quality) and wonder why
their local library needs to be doing the same thing.
Sorry, there's no "All of the Above"! :-)
Jerry Kuntz
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org