Rebecca Hedreen has a neat description of all the options her distance students have in reaching her. Wouldn’t it be great if they all were interoperable? Meredith and Stephen think so too… I think some sort of online presence indicator should be required for each and every one of these – most seem to have them already, but not all…
Embedded librarians
The Iraq war brought us the concept of "embedded journalists". Now we have the concept of "embedded librarians". An embedded journalist is supposed to have better access to a story; an embedded librarian provides better access for students to him/herself and to the library’s resources.