Library Trends articles from June 1998

Library Trends archives from June 1998

Remotely Familiar: Using Computerized Monitoring to Study Remote Use.(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT Computerized monitoring has been used for decades to study the behavior of remote users of online library resources. The older method of using transaction log analysis to study how remote users interact with online catalogs and...

Services to Remote Users: Marketing the Library's Role.(academic libraries can benefit from distance learning via computer)(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT Distance leaning is an emerging educational market of compelling interest to higher education. Driven by economics and enabled by innovations in educational technology, this new market presents significant marketing challenges...

Remote Library Users--Needs and Expectations.(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT Libraries of all types are providing an increasing number of resources that users can access from remote sites. Academic libraries, in particular, are becoming partners in their parent institutions' distance learning programs....

Off-Campus Library Support for Distance Adult Learners.(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT The phenomenal growth in the number of adults enrolled in graduate level classes that are delivered through distance education methods, such as video teleconference technology, has implications for library support services. The...

Remote Users of Health Sciences Libraries.(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT Providing information services to remote users is not a new concept for health sciences librarians. Most health care professionals practice in hospitals and clinics remote from a health sciences library. However, trends in...

Web Information Services at the University of South Africa Library: A Work in Progress.(library uses World Wide Web to pass information)(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT This article outlines the process initiated by the University of South Africa (Unisa) Library to develop online support to its users. Unisa has been offering distance education for more than fifty years. The library has played a...

Service Perspectives for the Digital Library Remote Reference Services.(role of librarians and users in a digital library)(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... We play a cultural role in the sense that librarians have traditionally applied a broader range of knowledge to pieces of information. I think it's high tech and high touch. Bring in high tech, but give it a human face. And ...

Cutting Out the Middleman: Patron-Initiated Interlibrary Loans.(Southern Illinois University library)(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT The interlibrary loan process at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, has undergone a major redesign since the late 1980s. Central to the redesign has been a move toward empowering patrons by providing them with choice and...

Making Choices in the Virtual World: The New Model at United Technologies Information Network.(virtual library)(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT As the services of the United Technologies Corporation Information Network have changed from a traditional library system to a virtual system of World Wide Web sites, a document delivery unit, telephone and e-mail reference,...

Online Services to AT&T Employees.(how At and T Corp. transitioned to electronically based information)(Abstract)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT AT&T information services evolved from mainframe computer environment into a client-server open architecture in the early 1990s. This change in computing expanded the online services available to library and information service...