Hello, LibraryPix! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Edison (talk) 21:11, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, LibraryPix. I too would like to welcome you to Wikipedia in general and the reference desks in particular.
Consumed Crustacean already linked you to the reference desk guidelines. For a more practical idea of how it "works", you might wish to browse through the desks and some of their archives.
Apart from helping out querents and trying to answer their questions, ideally, we also try to use the fruit of our research for direct improvement of the encyclopedia's content, by enhancing and correcting the corresponding articles, or even by creating new ones. There is even a project dedicated to this goal: Reference Desk Article Collaboration, but most editors do this on their own or in ad hoc collaboration.
In any event, I would like to amplify Edison's reply to your question: we are very happy to welcome professional librarians at the desks. If you like helping out here, you might also consider adding your name to this list of reference desk "regulars".
