It’s very late, you’re in your pajamas, and you desperately need a librarian to answer your reference question.
No problem.
Patrons of North Olympic Peninsula library systems in Clallam and Jefferson counties, Port Townsend and Peninsula College have launched a new online service, “Ask a Librarian.”
The service allows users the ability to send questions to reference staff via four Web site links for each Peninsula library system.
They are: www.jclibrary.info for the Jefferson County Library in Port Hadlock; www.nols.org for Clallam County’s North Olympic Library System; www.pc.ctc.edu for Peninsula College; and www.ptpl.lib.wa.us for Port Townsend Public Library.
“It allows questions that can be asked at 2 in the morning,” George Stratton, North Olympic Library System director, said with a laugh.
“We’ll pick up the question in the morning and at least you’ve gotten to ask the question and you can go back to sleep.”
“Ask a Librarian” was developed last year after the state library system offered a $10,000 startup grant to Peninsula libraries and others in Washington to launch the concept.
