Volume 21 Number 1 (2002)

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    Coping With Success: Distance Learning in Indiana Higher Education
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Scott, Susan B.
    A sage once cautioned, “Be careful what you wish for lest you get it.” Accomplishing significant enrollments in distance learning now confronts Indiana’s higher education institutions with new challenges in handling that success. Though popular media still speak of distance learning as new or experimental, Indiana’s higher education community has been practicing it for nearly a century. Indiana University’s independent study program dates to the early 1900’s, and Purdue began broadcasting college classes by radio in the thirties. Purdue and IU began inter-campus course delivery in 1961 that led to creation of the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS) in 1967. Thus, Indiana’s institutions and their faculties have a history of creativity in using technology to support, improve, and deliver postsecondary education, even though we also have a deep-seated tradition of doing rather than bragging. We take for granted what others, several years later, loudly proclaim as “innovative” or “unprecedented.”
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    Cover
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana Libraries
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    Distance Learning
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Logsdon, Robert
    This special issue of INDIANA LIBRARIES has a twofold purpose. First, it seeks to introduce distance learning to those individuals not familiar with it, especially in library settings. Secondly, for those librarians currently providing distance learning services in their institutions, it will broaden their horizons and stimulate ideas to investigate and expand their current application.
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    Distance Learning Library Services: Challenges and Opportunities for an Academic Library System
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Haynes, Anne
    This article evolved out of a presentation given at the 2002 Indiana Library Federation (ILF) Conference in Indianapolis, as my contribution to the panel discussion, “Distance Learning: Challenge or Opportunity,” sponsored by the ILF Continuing Education Committee. The presentations by the other librarians on that panel – from a public library, a high school, and a community college – certainly expanded my awareness of the various kinds of exciting endeavors that other types of Indiana libraries are engaged in that are made possible by distance technology. The kinds of distance education (DE) services offered by an academic library system reflect its need to provide seamless library service to students and faculty, regardless of their location, to meet the specific needs of teaching/learning and research. And among academic institutions, each views and organizes DE differently, according to its academic mission. The library’s services for DE students must be responsive to the mission of the institution.
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    Indiana Libraries Guest Editor Guidelines
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana Libraries
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    Indiana Libraries Submission Guidelines
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana Libraries
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    Indiana Library Federation Publication Subscription Information
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana Libraries
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    Minds, A New Way of Learning*
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Holt, Tim J.
    INCOLSA and the Indiana State library have worked the last few years on creating a video conference network among Indiana Libraries. Today, there are 18 sites around the state using state of the art equipment, paid for with LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) funding, to interact and train the staff and public via Distance Learning. These sites include 16 public libraries, INCOLSA and the Indiana State Library.
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    Postsecondary Distance Learners and Public Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Barsun, Rita
    Elsewhere in this issue Anne Haynes describes the challenges and opportunities within an academic library system that offers services to distance learners. This article also addresses the challenges and opportunities presented by the library needs of distance learners, but outside an academic library system.
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    Table of Contents
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana Libraries