Lori Bell sent me a link to the Answerland Blog for Oregon's virtual online reference service!

"Librarians in Oregon are designing a multi-type virtual reference service to bring librarians to patron desktops all over the state. But there's a lot to decide. Our weblog highlights crucial issues and offers Oregon librarians a place to contribute their insight."

They're using Radio, so there's an RSS feed, and they've broken out their posts into categories for evaluation, ideas and reads, news, policies, training, and scheduling. You go, Oregon librarians! And if you live in Oregon, check out the Answerland service for yourself: "Real Help. Right Now. From Oregon's Libraries."

Side note: I'll just re-iterate one more time that Lori really needs to start her own blog!

I just heard on the news that if you go see The Matrix Reloaded, you should sit through all nine minutes of the credits because they show a trailer for the third movie, The Matrix: Revolutions, afterwards. Here's Roger Ebert's review of the movie, although thankfully he doesn't provide very many details.

THE MATRIX RELOADED ***1/2 (R)

"It is an immensely skillful sci-fi adventure, combining the usual elements: heroes and villains, special effects and stunts, chases and explosions, romance and oratory. It develops its world with more detail than the first movie was able to afford, gives us our first glimpse of the underground human city of Zion, burrows closer to the heart of the secret of the Matrix, and promotes its hero, Neo, from confused draftee to a Christ figure in training." [Roger Ebert Movie Reviews]