Note: If you send a message via our chat window and you don't receive an immediate response, please be patient as a small amount of lag may lengthen our response time. Also please do not navigate away from this page while using the chat window or else your chat will disconnect.

Our virtual reference desk is designed to provide live, brief answers to factual questions and/or suggestions for locations and sources which might help to answer your question.

Now there are two options for chatting with librarians at LSU! You may use our chat window on this page, or, if you already have an instant messaging program, you can contact us on AIM, Yahoo!Messenger, or MSNMessenger. Our screennames are as follows:

AIM: lsulibrary
Yahoo!: lsulibrary
MSN: lsulibrary@hotmail.com

If you do not have one of these programs installed on your computer but you still want to use the IM service, you can sign up and access AIM from the web at AIM Express.

Virtual Reference Hours

Hours may vary during holidays and intersessions.

Monday - Thursday, 9am to 5pm

If chat is not available, you may leave a message in the chat window -- be sure to include your email address so we can get back to you. Or you can call the Reference Desk and leave a voice message. The phone number for The Middleton Library is (225) 578-8875.