Resources - Book review - Latest lessons in e-learning. Diverse approaches to e-learning and the role of the information professional are discussed in this latest guide. Tracey Caldwell gives us the low down on it.(Supporting E-learning: A Guide for Library and Information Managers)(Book Review)

This collection of essays from UK library professionals represents a diversity of approach to developing and supporting e-learning. Editor Maxine Melling defines e-learning widely, as learning "facilitated and supported through the use of information and communications technologies".

Melling acknowledges that e-learning is still very much under development and that libraries are at very different stages in their implementations and support for e-learning. In her introduction, she points out that cultural and collaboration issues are as important as technical issues, and the essays reflect the importance of human issues.

Supporting E-learning does not attempt to be a guide to e-learning, rather it informs library and information managers of the issues to be considered and how others have addressed the issues. At the same time it is a very practical handbook to approaching specific aspects of planning and development.

It examines where the e-learning system should sit within the institution, with the first essay arguing that e-learning should be part of an institution-wide managed ...