Distance Learning Library Services: The Tenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference

Discover practical solutions to the challenges facing off-campus librarians! This comprehensive book highlights the problems that face professionals who provide library instruction and information access to off-campus students-and suggests ways to solve them. Geared toward practitioners, this book addresses assessment guidelines for service provision and establishing joint ventures with other institutions to provide more effective services. Each chapter includes a complete bibliography and many contain figures, tables, and graphs that make the information easier to access and understand. Distance Learning Library Services covers a broad spectrum of distance learning issues, including the evaluation of Web resources, changing librarians' perspectives about serving distant learners, and the need for cooperation with faculty to improve information service to distant learners. Each chapter of Distance Learning Library Services was carefully selected by a 24-member board using a juried abstracts process. Here is a small sample of what you'll find in this extraordinary collection: how to develop, implement, and promote library services for distance learners important information on extending library services off-campus an analysis of how academic libraries design and provide content for distance learning Web sites why the distance learning librarian's input is essential to the design of distance learning programs a case study of a partnership between the University of Kansas and XanEdu designed to evaluate their production of course packs and their acceptance by faculty and students a collections development perspective on distance education how Centra Symposium can aid in the delivery of library services considerations, challenges, and concerns when providing distance services to international graduate students an online information literacy tutorial using BlackBoard distance education software quality assurance in distance learn