-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Inquiry Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:13:09 -0400 From: "Carol Chau" <[log in to unmask]> To: Dear MAPS, Abby Goodrum and I are on the faculty at SyracuseUniversity's School of Information Studies. We are engaged in a project designed to build collaborative, digital museum and library reference services. The project team is currently developing and evaluating processes that enable museums and libraries to work together in providing reference assistance over the web to support patrons' image information needs. We would like to invite members of your listserv to participate, and wonder if you would be kind enough to post this message inviting listserv members to answer a survey to collect baseline data about visual resource librarians and museums digital reference practices. If you agree, please post to your listserv this message with the following URL (http://quartz.syr.edu/dii and select "Survey"), and let me know accordingly. Please contact Carol Chau, doctoral student, at [log in to unmask] Best regards, and many thanks, Joanne Silverstein Director of Research & Development, Information Institute of Syracuse (iis.syr.edu) Assistant Research Professor, School of Information Studies SyracuseUniversity (315) 443-1363