The Roles that Librarians and Libraries Play in Distance Education Settings
This article explores the literature that focuses on the various roles librarians and libraries play in distance education settings. Learners visit libraries either in person or via networked computing technology to ask for help with their online courses. Questions range from how to upload a document with a learning management system, to how to use software and hardware, to more complex questions about how to locate and research articles for term papers. The literature reviewed provides a glimpse into the historical roles, current roles, as well as possible new roles that libraries and librarians may play in the future. This article identifies various library services that are essential to distant learners and distance education settings, and will explain how librarians and libraries are providing these services online.
Design and Development of Heuristic Utility Management Algorithm for Chinese Library Management System
Utility Management in a library is the programmatic tool with the synthetic mental program ability, along with Artificial Intelligence capacities, headed to manage a high volume of books, articles, and assignments, which help to ease the manual significance of librarians. This computerized machine code helps librarians to deal with various databases of the library management system. This framework keeps the records of all the resource details in an optimized manner. It uses a utility management software code with an optimized search classifier that helps to deal with the resource of the library. In this work, the Heuristic Utility Management Algorithm (HUMA) has been used to keep track of resources in the library using mathematical modeling and standardized programmatic computation on tags, which relates the decode scanner to parse the input information. HUMA helps to reduce the manual routine work done by the librarians, and it has been analyzed in this research with prominent survey outcomes based on experimental validation.
Listening from a Distance: A Survey of University of Illinois Distance Learners and Its Implications for Meaningful Instruction
ABSTRACT In spring 2009, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library conducted a significant new survey of distance learners enrolled in off-campus or online graduate programs. Exploring distance learners’ perceptions about and use of library services, the survey of 146 students reveals opportunities to better meet the research needs of distance learners whose graduate work may demand extensive use of library resources. The survey affords insights into distance learners’ communication preferences, and their particular research needs. Findings from this survey have informed one academic library's strategy to begin addressing important questions in library instruction for distance learners.