week 8 slammin the boards

The whole concept of answerboards is a great idea but I think it would be difficult for libraries with a small staff such as in the library I work in. Time is the critical factor here for small staff. i think however,that if you posted a question to an answerboard you would appreciate a librarian answering it as their sources would be trustworthy. Answering the questions would definitely give libraries an exposure and open the eyes of the general public who think that libraries are full of nothing but romance novels and westerns. libraries and librarians can be quite stereotyped and this is one way of breaking that. For those of us who like an unusual challenge ( and waht librarian doesnt????), then answering the questions could prove to be quite fun. I can see it would also become addictive if you werent careful! A site just for local library memebers to ask questions would exhaust our library but I can see that it would be great as another form of customer service. I will be interested to see both others in my library think as well as the rest of the library world out there doing this course.