Off-campus Library Services
Off-campus Library Services

Author: Anne Marie Casey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780789013392

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The Internet, distance learning, and remote access to central information banks used to be the stuff of science fiction. Nowadays, academic librarians reap the benefits, and face the practical consequences, of the staggering advances in information technology. This book presents the advice and suggestions of experienced librarians to help you develop effective, easy-to-use off-campus information services, including distance learning. The book reveals the secrets of planning and implementing off-campus services. It also helps veteran librarians add user-friendly features and solve common problems on their existing systems. Off-Campus Library Services explains the technology, addresses management issues, and offers usable suggestions for program development.

Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends and Opportunities
Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends and Opportunities

Author: Lau, Linda K.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-07-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1930708521

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In today's technology-crazed environment, distance learning is touted as a cost-effective option for delivering employee training and higher education programs, such as bachelor's, master's and even doctoral degrees. Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends and Opportunities provides readers with an in-depth understanding of distance learning and the technologies available for this innovative media of learning and instruction. It traces the development of distance learning from its history to suggestions of a solid strategic implementation plan to ensure its successful and effective deployment.

1996 Writer's Market
1996 Writer's Market

Author: Mark Garvey

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 1078

ISBN-13: 9780898797015

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The ideal resource for up-and-coming (and already arrived) writers, the Writer's Market features information vital to the success of an author's career. This edition contains the facts on 4,000 opportunities, including up-to-date listings of buyers of books, articles, and stories and listings of contests and awards, plus articles and interviews with top professionals.

Social Science Libraries
Social Science Libraries

Author: Steve W. Witt

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-06-29

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 3110232154

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This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses upon the question of interdisciplinary within social science libraries and the role of libraries to both react to and facilitate paradigm shifts in research and science. Section two focuses on the rise of data as a resource to be collected and shared within social science libraries. The third section focuses on the role of librarians to facilitate the development of social organizations that develop around new technologies and research communities. Changed role of librarians within social science libraries Describes new developments of social organizations Essential for librarians