[WEB4LIB] Re: University of Phoenix/"distance" library services

[Tiffany Severns]

Our public and academic libraries are already supporting distance learning
students, even if they aren't doing so formally. Some anecdotal evidence: I'm
enrolled in a distance learning course right now. While I was able to find all
the citations I needed (and a very few sources) on the web, I still had to visit
two academic libraries in my area to do get the articles I needed for my research
paper. If I lived in a more rural setting, I may very well have burdened my
public library's ILL librarian with my requests. Of course, there are many people
out there who don't  have easy access to even that kind of service.

While at the Internet Librarian conference I heard about an initiative to provide
library services to distance learners that sounded really promising. Check out
the Florida Distance Learning Reference & Referral Center (
http://www.lib.usf.edu/distance/ ).  Here's a blurb from their web site:

> The Florida Distance Learning Reference and Referral Center provides
> centralized reference and referral services to students enrolled in
> off-campus courses offered by the State of Florida's public universities
> and community colleges. The Center's services are designed to
> complement the primary services provided by the distance learner's local
> library.
>
Tiffany Severns
tseverns at nslsilus.org
Waukegan Public Library
http://www.waukeganpl.org

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