ontario canada website http www.askon.ca ask ontario askon is a realtime chat and sms research information service that connects students of ontario canada to staff at college libraries across the province for instant messaging and sms based reference help online . 1 askon s mandate is to help visitors find better information than they can on their own and to raise the profile of ontario s libraries as providers of services and tools responsive to the needs of an increasingly digitally literate society . 2 it was launched on january 31 2008 as one of five projects of knowledge ontario to leverage the collective resources of ontario s publicly funded libraries in different sectors and to foster information and digital literacy by helping ontarians to find authoritative digital information and improve their online research skills . askon became an opt in service of ontario colleges library service ocls in june 2012 . using licensed secure chat software askon staff provide research guidance and help to users navigating the internet their library s services and other online resources . askon is a collaborative effort with college libraries each of which has offered up some of their staff time to make the service possible . the various libraries staff work in shifts to provide over 60 hours a week to post secondary students . 1 the service also engages library and information science students as volunteer interns who assist on the service in exchange for the training and professional development opportunity . partners edit cambrian college centennial college conestoga college confederation college fanshawe college george brown college georgian college humber college seneca college st. clair references edit a b askon virtual reference . ontario colleges library service . retrieved 2016 05 13 . about askon . ontario colleges library service . retrieved 2016 05 13 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ask ontario & oldid 719997800 categories libraries in ontario navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 may 2016 at 02 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view