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Francis, Mary – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
This paper will look at the services presently offered to distance students by libraries within the categories of professional staff, access to resources, reference assistance, and library user instruction. It will then offer the argument that these services could be improved by developing embedded librarians within online academic courses as a…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Andragogy, Educational Theories, Academic Libraries

Thompson, James – Electronic Library, 1983
Suggests that if librarians and libraries are to continue to fulfill their true tasks, they need to adapt to changes resulting from new technology and overcome the professional paralysis that has made most major libraries largely unusable. Problems of size, arrangement, and catalogs are identified as contributors to unusable library. (EJS)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Futures (of Society), Library Automation, Library Catalogs
Free Library of Philadelphia, PA. – 1981
Based on a study of the Free Library's current operations, including its financial support, expenditure, facilities, usage, staff, organizational structure, administrative proceedings, goals, objectives, and specific functions, a long-range plan for the library within the framework of Philadelphia's municipal finance limitations is developed. An…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Check Lists, Information Services, Library Administration

Pankake, Marcia – Library Hi Tech, 1991
Offers suggestions for librarians to meet the needs of humanities researchers. Topics discussed include types of materials humanists use; how scholars work; computerized information sources; the use of online library catalogs; access to European automated catalogs; creating international standards; cooperative collection development; and academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Humanities
The Internet and Local Online Databases: A "Novum Organum" for Twenty-First-Century Library Science.
Webb, Terry – 1996
In using conventional print, CD-ROM and online resources, librarians are still middlepersons between publishers and users. By exploiting Internet and World Wide Web online technology and developing local databases, libraries can tap new information sources and make them available to local audiences and others dispersed around the world in an…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Colleges, Computer Networks, Databases
Masters, Denise G. – 1996
Public libraries have a responsibility toward all of their patrons, including home schoolers. "Home schooling" describes the situation where parents or guardians choose not to send their children to public or private schools, but instead educate their children themselves. Libraries are very important to home schoolers because, in most…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs, Educational Resources