Virtual Reference

Knowledge Ontario is a non-profit organization led by a groups of university, community college, school, public, and government libraries that seeks to provide access to online information resources and services to all Ontarians. According to the CLA press release, "The vision represented by Knowledge Ontario and the leadership of the Knowledge Ontario team is exemplary and world class and can serve as a model for libraries globally on achieving their future success for all types of libraries."  

I think it's a pretty amazing initiative and am super pumped to be a part of it. I will be volunteering as a virtual reference intern with Knowledge Ontario's Ask Ontario initiative starting in September 2010.

Information Services Intern

Today was my first day as one of two summer interns with the Faculty of Information's Information Services team. According to the job description, about half my time will be spent on special projects like data analysis of user survey results, developing promotional/outreach materials for the Inforum, and even a microfiche collection weeding project. The other half of our time will be spent at the desk. I'm looking forward to blogging about what it's like on the other side of the desk!