Virtual Reference Service from GPO

USG depository libraries are pursuing the idea of collaborative virtual reference with the Government Information Online (GIO) Ask a Librarian service. (note: a few years ago, a group of U.S. embassy librarians around the world tried to get something similar going, but it never went anywhere...as we can read at the now retired ircworld blog) Read all about the GIO project in Barbara Quint's Information Today article.