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Serving Unaffiliated Distance Learners: Strategies That Work, Lisa T. Nickel, Rachel G. Mulvihill
Serving Unaffiliated Distance Learners: Strategies That Work, Lisa T. Nickel, Rachel G. Mulvihill
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Dealing with unaffiliated distance learning students can be a daunting task for many public as well as academic librarians. This article will discuss strategies for providing reference to these students by gathering information on what services they are offered via their home institutions, and helping them navigate the often confusing landscape of library resources and services. Authors will outline the challenges and opportunities for public libraries presented by distance learners and suggest some services that might be provided for them. Finally, we will discuss the opportunities for outreach to distance learning students from both public and academic libraries.
Collaborating With Faculty And Instructional Technology Staff, Lisa T. Nickel
Collaborating With Faculty And Instructional Technology Staff, Lisa T. Nickel
W&M Libraries Book Chapters
As more and more students are completing their college degree without ever stepping foot on the main campus, libraries must now find new and innovative ways to serve virtual and remote users. In this timely collection, Susan Clayton brings together over 20 experienced distance instruction librarians from across the country University of Western Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois, Southeastern Louisiana University, University of North Carolina to share their effective strategies for designing, delivering, collaborating, and assessing distance instruction. Coverage explores scheduling and marketing classes; utilizing virtual classroom software, online tutorials, and Web tools; collaborating with faculty and information …
A Study On The Remote Library Users: Needs Of Library Services And Preferences, Mihyeon Kim
A Study On The Remote Library Users: Needs Of Library Services And Preferences, Mihyeon Kim
School of Education Articles
A study on the remote library users showed that remote users preferred online databases and internet as information resources because of easy access and easy of use. However, they have used books and journals, which are printed resources, as main information resources because online databases and internet cannot satisfy their information needs. Also, 86.7 percent of remote users consider library services as an important issue to choose a distance learning program, and remote users extremely motivated by their professors to use library so that there are needs to have partnership between distance learning programs and library services. Finally, remote users …
A Study On Online Interface For Research Information Systems: Information Organization For Adaptive Interface, Mihyeon Kim
A Study On Online Interface For Research Information Systems: Information Organization For Adaptive Interface, Mihyeon Kim
School of Education Articles
This study is to contribute to develop adaptive information systems meeting inside information needs as well as represented information needs, and dealing with every levels of users and user's preferences. Also, this study is to present a method of developing adaptive information system through developing user profile using machine teaming and decision tree, applying relevance feedback using merged vector, and applying user feedback.