There are several ways to stay in touch with the L-net community.
The L-net e-mail discussion list is open to everyone. Traffic is minimal, but we'd love to change that. Most of the messages are announcements from L-net, but everyone is welcome to bring up any L-net related topic. If you have trouble signing up, ask Emily or Caleb to add you.
L-net goings-on is a bi-weekly newsletter sent to the e-mail discussion list, and is also posted to this website.
The L-net blog covers virtual reference in Oregon and beyond. Caleb does most of the writing, but you can contribute too! Just ask.
The Oregon Virtual Reference Summit is an annual conference held somewhere in Oregon dedicated to helping us meet one another and to hearing from national experts on virtual reference in our own back yard.
If you're interested in the national conversation about virtual reference, a number of blogs and e-mail discussion lists exist.
QUESTIONPOINT-L is an e-mail discussion list for people using the QuestionPoint software, including L-net librarians. There are occasional flurries of e-mail, but not every day.
DIG_REF is an e-mail discussion list for digital (aka virtual) reference. There are a few messages every day. Topics range far and wide from virtual reference, but frequently include best practices for virtual reference, software, and online resources.
There are fewer and fewer blogs dedicated to only virtual reference, except for those, like ours, that are dedicated to or sponsored by specific services. Digital Reference is an exception, but for news and discussion from blogs, try a blog search service like Technorati for virtual reference, digital reference, or instant messaging reference.
Librarians using del.icio.us use the tags virtualreference and digitalreference as they find interesting articles and web pages on the subject.