QuestionPoint
QuestionPoint™
Cooperative virtual reference
At a glance
- Meet users at their point of need—provide reference service around the clock with trustworthy, real-time one-on-one reference assistance from professional librarians, right from you library Web page or other Web portal. Wherever your customers are, you can be there too.
- Web-based chat, cobrowse and cooperative reference tools use best-in-class technology and require no special software or browser plug-ins. A librarian does not need to use Windows Operating System to do simple chat and page push (for highest-level co-browsing, Internet Explorer browser is required). A streamlined conference process allows librarians to transfer to another librarian smoothly. There is also support for multilingual reference transactions.
- Q&A knowledge base that is carefully reviewed and maintained by Cooperative contributors.
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QuestionPoint reference management service provides libraries with tools to interact with users in multiple ways, using both chat and email. The Web-based chat tool with co-browsing capability, coupled with the email reference component, enable seamless integration of chat, follow up and referral, as well as one-stop reporting tools for all types of reference services. In addition, libraries may opt to participate in the 24/7 Reference Cooperative to provide live around-the-clock reference service to their community.
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