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Item Blurring of Lines: Academic and Public Libraries Revisited(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Steele, Patricia AnnAmong the conclusions reached in Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources: A Report to the OCLC Membership in 2005, was the following: "The similarity of perceptions about libraries and their resources across respondents from six countries is striking. It suggests that libraries are seen by information consumers as a common solution, a single organization - one entity with many outlets - constant, consistent, expected." Does this mean that many of the traditional differences between public and academic libraries also are blurring? In this pieces, I would like to explore that thought informally and then suggest some approaches libraries of all types need to take.Item Distance Learning Library Services: Challenges and Opportunities for an Academic Library System(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Haynes, AnneThis 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.Item Myths About Libraries & Library Research(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Vornberger, DarlaWith all the technology pouring into libraries over the last ten years, bibliographic instruction has been virtually transformed into database instruction. We no longer teach students how to find books in the card catalog or use Humanities Index to find journal articles. Instead we show them how do keyword searches with Boolean operators in the OPAC, and we introduce them to general and specialized databases to find articles. So when I was asked to talk about the library to a first year study skills class in a classroom that had no computer access, I momentarily found myself at a loss. I certainly didn’t want to bore them with statistics, floor plans, and a detailed explanation of the Dewey Decimal System. Instead, I asked myself what kind of basic information might benefit students coming to the library to do research for the first time? And perhaps more importantly, what misinformation might be damaging their efforts and increasing their frustration? In answer to these questions, I came up with five myths about libraries and library services which can cause students to form attitudes and expectations that sabotage their library experiences.