{"id":1828,"date":"2010-06-24T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T17:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:46:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T17:46:11","slug":"chat-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=1828","title":{"rendered":"Chat with us!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an effort to offer more reference services to our user community, SC&A will now offer a chat feature accessible from our homepage<\/a>. Simply click on the icon from our homepage to find the chat interface and be directly connected to a SC&A reference staff member:<\/p>\n

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This feature is designed to allow us to quickly answer your basic questions about our website, collections, and access policies. It will be available during our regular hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10am to 4:30pm and Wednesday from noon to 8pm (EST). More detailed research queries should still be sent to our email address: speccoll@gmu.edu or call us at 703-993-2220.<\/p>\n

We look forward to helping you navigate our finding aids and locate materials relevant to your research needs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an effort to offer more reference services to our user community, SC&A will now offer a chat feature accessible from our homepage. Simply click on the icon from our homepage to find the chat interface and be directly connected to a SC&A reference staff member: This feature is designed to allow us to quickly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[185,184],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-scrc-interest","tag-chat","tag-reference"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-tu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4570,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=4570","url_meta":{"origin":1828,"position":0},"title":"Welcome back!","author":"admin","date":"August 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome back, students, to the first week of school! 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