Enhancing Distance Learning Library Services

Connecting with the Net Generation: Access and Environment Beyond Technology: Library Services and Resources for Distance Learning Cheryl Stewart, Presenter ACRL/Greater New York Metropolitan Area Chapter Annual Symposium Baruch College Conference Center December 2, 2005

Where we were…

Distance learning is changing things for college librarians • “Library services are now operating within a user-centered and self-learning world.” (Han) • “User behavior is shifting from a passive learning pattern to an active one in which customers want simple, helpful self service and personal help only at times of greatest need.” (Han) • Libraries are expected to provide the same level of services and resources for off-campus and distance learning students as for traditional onsite students. • Growth in the number of distance learning classes offered and the number of students taking advantage of DL options is expected to sky-rocket in the next ten to twenty years. (Gandhi) • The lack of face-to-face contact with patrons requires new skills, strategies, roles and responsibilities for librarians.

Where we are… • Online Internet-accessible catalogs • Web presence • Electronic collections of full-text periodical databases • Access to digital reference resources, such as encyclopedias, indexes, and digests • Email reference service

Metadata • Tagging • Automatic indexing • Rich media • Other • Digital • Virtual • Electronic • Online • On-demand • Off-campus • Distance • Remote • User interface • Remote access • Remote authentication • User system requirements • Other • User interface • Remote access

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“Academic librarians today stand at an interesting threshold with immense possibilities. They have a critical and vital role to play in providing library services to distance learns and ensuring that they receive the same quality of education as on-campus students” (Gandhi) Prepared by Cheryl Stewart, Librarian Coastline Community College December 2005 Phone: 714.241.6209 ext.17318 Fax: 714.241.6187 Email: cstewart@coastline.edu Library URL: http://library.coastline.edu

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Enhancing Distance Learning Library Services