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Du, Yunfei – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2015
Mobile technologies such as iPhone apps make it possible for learners to freely access course content management systems, library Web sites, as well as reference services from anywhere, anytime. This paper reviewed the current status of mobile learning and suggested possible factors influencing the use of mobile apps in online learning. The author…
Descriptors: Barriers, Access to Information, User Needs (Information), Distance Education
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Kirsch, Breanne A.; Bradley, Lola – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
At the University of South Carolina Upstate, two librarians created a series of workshops to proactively prevent plagiarism. To reach distance education students, online workshops were developed in Blackboard including basic and advanced workshops for lower and upper-level courses. The workshops are intended to introduce students to the concepts…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Distance Education, Online Courses, Integrity
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Wray, Christina C. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2013
Providing accessible library services and instruction to distance users with disabilities can seem daunting. This article, which grew out of a webinar presented by the author to the Health Science Special Interest Group of ACRL, provides practical strategies to help content creators utilize built-in accessibility features and provides a resources…
Descriptors: Library Services, Online Systems, Access to Information, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Jensen, Jennifer; Tunon, Johanna – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
A number of free Web-based tools are available for distance librarians to create presentations and online assignments. The relative merits of presentation tools like Dabbleboard, Jing, Prezi, Tildee, 280 Slides, and Glogster, and classroom tools like Make Beliefs Comix, Picviewer, Photopeach, and Wordle are assessed for ease of use by distance…
Descriptors: Usability, Library Instruction, Courseware, Database Management Systems
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Behr, Michele; Hill, Rebecca – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
With both budget dollars and buying power shrinking for academic library collections, the selection of materials is a series of crucial choices. With increases in numbers of online programs, how can we determine if what we are buying is in fact what our users need? E-reserves are an increasingly popular way to provide digital copies of course…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries, Archives
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Guillot, Ladonna; Stahr, Beth; Meeker, Bonnie Juve' – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2010
Nursing and library faculty face many information literacy challenges when graduate nursing programs migrate to online course delivery. The authors describe a collaborative model for providing cost-effective online library services to new graduate students in a three-university consortium. The embedded librarian service links a health sciences…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, College Faculty, Medical Libraries, Librarians