{"id":1386,"date":"2006-06-30T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2006-06-30T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T14:20:26","slug":"lyceum-in-reference-services-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/lyceum-in-reference-services-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyceum in Reference Services Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred and Jeff, Stutzman and Pomerantz, have a new article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/10.1108\/00907320610669443\">&#8220;Collaborative reference work in the blogosphere.&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/info\/journals\/rsr\/rsr.jsp\">Reference Services Review<\/a> 34, No. 2 (2006): 200-212.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong>  Purpose  This paper explores the use of blogs as a platform forproviding reference service, and discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/lyceum.ibiblio.org\/\">Lyceum<\/a>, an open source software project from ibiblio.org, for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Design\/methodology\/approach<\/strong>  The following topics are explored: the evolution of libraries&#8217; uses of blogs, the advantages of conducting the reference transaction as a collaborative effort, and the use of blogs as an environment that fosters collaboration. The argument is made that blogs may be used to good effect in reference services<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings<\/strong> It is argued that blogs may be used to good effect in reference services. <a href=\"http:\/\/lyceum.ibiblio.org\/\">Lyceum<\/a>, an open source blogosphere application, is discussed as an environment for blog-based reference service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred and Jeff, Stutzman and Pomerantz, have a new article &#8220;Collaborative reference work in the blogosphere.&#8221; Reference Services Review 34, No. 2 (2006): 200-212. Abstract: Purpose This paper explores the use of blogs as a platform forproviding reference service, and discusses Lyceum, an open source software project from ibiblio.org, for this purpose. Design\/methodology\/approach The following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}