Research Assistance at Your Fingertips
www.askalibrarian.org
Students and busy professionals have discovered the best way to get the information they seek is to ask a librarian online!
More Floridians than ever are logging on to this free service, which allows you to ask specific questions through live chat or e-mail. A trained information professional can guide you to the answers you need in minutes rather than wasting hours navigating hundreds of unhelpful and irrelevant web sites.
Ask a Librarian's hours are:
10am - midnight Sun - Thurs
10am - 5pm on Fri & Sat.
Email assistance is available 24/7.
You can access Ask a Librarian from work or your home computer through the your library's website, or by logging on to www.askalibrarian.org .
More than 90 libraries statewide collaborate to provide this service to their patrons and the patrons of other participating libraries.
Ask a Librarian is a joint project of the College Center for Library Automation and the Tampa Bay Library Consortium.
Ask a Librarian is funded as part of the Florida Electronic Library by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant.
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