Category: Scholarship

I’ve always wanted to go to this conference, but there only ever seems to be one or two sessions relating to the library each year. Maybe I should do something about that instead of just complaining 😉 Anyhoo, there is at least one session this for distance librarians – Linking to journal articles in online…

Another DE-related session at ALA: Management Tools for Digital Reference Sponsored by the RUSA MARS Management of Electronic Reference Services (MERS) Committee The Peabody Orlando Hotel, Florida Ballroom I Sunday, June 27, 1:30-3:30 PM As digital reference services are integrated into the fabric of libraries, what are librarians doing to manage those services? In allocating…

I won’t be attending ALA, but Jerilyn Marshall Chair, DLS Liaison Committee, just sent the following list of programs related to distance library services to the OffCamp listserv: Going the Distance: Librarians Supporting Online Courses RUSA-MARS Saturday, June 26, 8:30 am – 10:00 am; Peabody Plaza International BR F/G Librarians are taking active roles in…

Back from vacation – here are some recent articles dealing with distance librarianship (courtesy of Erik Arfeuille’s New Technologies in Libraries email service): Collaboration: The Key to Unlocking the Dilemma of Distance Reference Services / Sherry Hawkins Backhus, Terri Pedersen Summey. In: The Reference Librarian. (2003)83/84; p. 193-202. Distant education offerings are growing at a…

IEEE Transactions on Education has a call for papers on an upcoming special issue:Web-Based Instruction. The initial manuscript submission deadline is August 2, 2004, and the tentative publication date is November 2005. Lots of time for peer review and revisions in there! IEEE Transactions on Education — The CFP is third from the bottom, or…

A couple of weeks ago I had a V-8 moment and realized I should be blogging about the fine art of Distance Librarianship. Last week (May 5-7) I was at the 11th Off Campus Library Services Conference in Carefree AZ and realized there’s plenty going on to keep an endeavor like this going, so here…