Teaching Collection Development in Distance Learning Mode: Two Current Approaches and the Challenge of an Uncertain Future.

Kennedy, John; Lonsdale, Ray

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ERIC Number: EJ550869

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Publication Date: 1997

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Teaching Collection Development in Distance Learning Mode: Two Current Approaches and the Challenge of an Uncertain Future.

Kennedy, John; Lonsdale, Ray

Education for Library and Information Services: Australia, v14 n2 p3-16 Aug 1997

Compares and analyzes two collection development courses for undergraduates offered through distance education, one at the University of Wales Aberystwyth (United Kingdom) and one at Charles Sturt University (Australia). Discusses the changes that electronic technology are bringing to collection development and to distance learning. (LRW)

Descriptors: Change, Comparative Analysis, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Library Collection Development, Library Education, Technological Advancement, Undergraduate Students

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Language: English

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