Finalists need your votes!

It’s time for the public to choose the winner of The Director’s Chair, a contest in which Florida high school students submitted commercials to promote Ask a Librarian. A panel of judges selected the top five videos from all of the entries, and now the public will choose the winner by voting for their favorite video from Jan. 27 to Feb. 9, 2008.

 Visit www.askalibrarian.org/thedirectorschair to cast your vote.

Ask a Librarian is a free online service that allows the public to visit the Palm Beach County Library website and e-mail or chat with a librarian for help with homework or general questions. The live chat service is available Sunday through Thursday 10 a.m. to Midnight and Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit www.pbclibrary.org/email.htm  for more information about the Ask a Librarian service, or to chat with a librarian now!

Ask a Librarian is a joint project of the College Center for Library Automation (CCLA) and the Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC). Ask a Librarian is funded as part of the Florida Electronic Library www.flelibrary.org   by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant.

The Tampa Bay Library Consortium, Inc. (TBLC) is a nonprofit multi-type library cooperative that assists and empowers libraries. Since 1979, TBLC has worked with member libraries to provide better, faster service and resource sharing to the residents of Florida. For more information, call (813) 622-8252 or visit www.tblc.org .

The College Center for Library Automation (CCLA) operates the statewide Library Information Network for Community Colleges (LINCC) and associated Web-based information portal, LINCCWeb, from its headquarters in Tallahassee, Fla. As an administered program of the Florida Department of Education’s Division of Community Colleges, CCLA serves 70 community college libraries in 57 cities throughout Florida. For more information, visit www.cclaflorida.org .