ABSTRACT

Collaboration and sharing are what libraries are all about. Sharing our best practices not only helps to save us work by saving us from reinventing the wheel, but also helps to make library services better as we all strive for improvement and share ideas for doing so. Collaboration and sharing are possible through a number of different venues and tools, both online and off. It used to be that if you wanted to collaborate and share with other library professionals you joined professional associations, attended conferences and workshops, and perhaps volunteered to give a presentation–not a lot of options there, especially for access services library professionals, who often have to stay behind to man the front lines while others in the library attend the conferences and workshops.