dear answer person – I stumbled upon this link the other day while surfing. Thought you might want to modernize your style and maybe incorporate with interesting “ask” responses. See the following… http://www.gapersblock.com/airbags/ask_the_librarian/
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: I’ll pass the suggestion along to the Answerperson technical support unit. It looks spiffy and perhaps the AP online interface is a little bland. It’s been suggested by others that we move to more of a blog type of interface. When you say “‘ask’ responses,” I assume you’re talking about the comments that readers can leave, such as under the topic “Where Are Chicago’s Poets?”
This website seems to be a little different than what we’re doing in that there’s only one featured topic per week and they often emanate from the librarian, not as a reply to a query. Then, the answers are very long, often with bibliographies. It’s very much more like a weekly newspaper column. We recommend that if you have a genuine reference or research question, you contact a reference desk at one of the Duke libraries. This personal contact approach will get you a speedier reply and better allow both you and the librarian to understand exactly what you need and how you need to find it.