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Distance Learners |
Individuals who are enrolled library users, and who are acquiring knowledge and skills through mediated information and instruction. |
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Covers all those individuals and agencies, or institutions, directly involved with academic programs or extension services offered away from a traditional academic campus, or in the absence of a traditional academic campus, including students, faculty, researchers, administrators, sponsors, and staff, or any of these whose academic work otherwise takes them away from on-campus library services. (ACRL Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services) | ||
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Library Services |
Refers
to those library services in support of college, university, or other post-secondary
courses and programs offered away from a main campus, or in the absence
of a traditional campus, and regardless of where credit is given. These
courses may be taught in traditional or non-traditional formats or media,
may or may not require physical facilities, and may or may not involve live
interaction of teachers and students. The phrase is inclusive of courses
in all post-secondary programs designated as extension, extended, off-campus,
extended campus, distance, distributed, open, flexible, franchising, virtual,
synchronous, or asynchronous. (ACRL Guidelines
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