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Caterina Reed; Paria Aria; Guinsly Mondésir; Harvey Long – College & Research Libraries, 2025
This research seeks to find the new trends in virtual reference and online learning by looking at the impact of COVID-19 on academic libraries, and by identifying gaps in professional development for academic librarians, particularly in reference and instruction. Responses from the surveyed academic librarians indicate that many services…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Learning, Library Services, Reference Services
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Lombard, Emmett – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2016
This article describes information literacy struggles of ESL college students within the context of four information literacy components: Identify, Locate, Evaluate, Use. Experiences from an online freshman composition course are used to illustrate these struggles, along with techniques academic librarians use to help ESL students from a distance.
Descriptors: Online Systems, Library Services, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nicholas, Pauline – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2010
The Internet and the World Wide Web have influenced the new approaches taken in teaching and learning at institutions of higher learning. The nature of the courses offered, the geographical spread of the teaching sites as well as the diverse and distributed student population are the catalysts for the changes. These non-traditional, or distant…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Academic Libraries, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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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
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Passonneau, Sarah; Coffey, Dan – College & Research Libraries, 2011
Electronic communication technologies continue to change the landscape of reference services. For many users, virtual communication is the preferred means of conversing. Synchronous virtual reference, similar to other synchronous means of communication, is an important method for reaching students and for providing teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Online Systems, Reference Services, Grounded Theory
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Profeta, Patricia C. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2007
The provision of equitable library services to distance learning students emerged as a critical area during the 1990s. Library services available to distance learning students included digital reference and instructional services, remote access to online research tools, database and research tutorials, interlibrary loan, and document delivery.…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Distance Education, Academic Libraries, Reference Services
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Knapp, Sara D. – RQ, 1980
Focuses on the methods used by three academic libraries in addressing the question of whether or not to charge users for online searches. (FM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Fees, Information Retrieval, Library Services
Lamb, Connie – Online, 1981
Reports on a survey of 47 academic library online facilities. Data gathered on finances, number of searches conducted, patrons served, sytems accessed, equipment used, procedures, promotion, and other facets are summarized. (FM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Retrieval, Library Services, Library Surveys
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Jones, Ray; Wittkopf, Barbara – RQ, 1980
Shares some of the experiences of the University of Florida Libraries' Census Access Program, which has provided print and machine-readable census products to users since 1971. Article anticipates the demand for the new data products of the 1980 census. (Author/JD)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Census Figures, Library Services, Online Systems
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MacDonald, Karen I.; vanDuinkerken, Wyoma – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2005
Texas A&M University Libraries has been testing virtual reference services since February 2004, but during the fall semester 2005, the Libraries began implementing and actively promoting the services to various target groups. Distance education students were identified as a primary target group for virtual reference services, and as of the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Academic Libraries, Universities, Online Systems
Jaffe, Lee; And Others – 1984
This task force report on current and anticipated needs relating to the use of microcomputers in libraries on the University of California, Berkeley, campus is intended to serve as a fundamental document, the basis for future discussion, planning, and development. The task force divided into two groups to consider the issues of staff use of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Automation, Library Services
Menges, Gary L. – 1978
The Texas Information Exchange (TIE) is a state-wide library network organized in 1967 for the purpose of sharing resources among Texas libraries. Its membership includes 37 college and university libraries, the Texas State Library, and ten public libraries that serve as Major Resource Centers in the Texas State Library Communications Network. In…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Networks, Library Surveys, Online Systems
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York, Charlene C.; And Others – Research Strategies, 1988
Reports on a study of the information-seeking behavior of users of Infotrac, OCLC, Newsbank Electronic Index, and LS/2 at the Bowling Green State University Libraries. Data gathered via interviews are discussed as they pertain to the user's profile; understanding of systems functions; effects on information-seeking behavior; and appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Seeking, Online Systems
Phillips, Roger – Online, 1982
Outlines the contracting of systems--CompuServe, The Source, and Dow Jones News Retrieval--as well as the purchasing of hardware with easy access and low cost and development of procedures for a videotex information service at Wheaton College Library. Examples of usage of the systems are provided. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Display Systems, Electronic Equipment, Higher Education
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Jones, Douglas – Journal of Library Automation, 1981
A pilot study at the University of Arizona library reports improvement in verification of questionable citations by using RLIN and OCLC as reference tools in place of print sources. A further full-scale study is planned. (RAA)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Citations (References), Databases, Information Sources
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