What's the better Q&A software for a library environment?

@frdelrosario Please don’t be so dismissive. It’s easy to find a bunch of application x, but you rarely find the diamond in the rough on Google.

Depending on your needs, perhaps a bulletin board or forum would do? Vanilla is simple, open source, and pretty well designed: http://vanillaforums.org/

If you don’t have the traffic volume to require specific things like recommending questions to users, it’s quite possible that setting up a forum specifically for question asking is something that would work.

Good luck.

You might want to look at some library websites that have such a feature, see how their Q&A works, and then contact the libraries whose fora you like for info as to their programming. I know several libray consortia have “Ask a Librarian” funtionality as does my library whose homepage is this.

Janbb gives me a funny (but valid) idea. Go to a bunch of Ask a Librarian sites and ask the question.

@jaytkay That is a fine idea!

I am looking for Q&A systems, we already have a system for ‘Ask a Librarian’, as far I can see there is no library using this kind of resource. Thanks for your answers!