ACRL New England Chapter News Online

ISSN 1527-0106

Winter 2007, Number 110

In This Issue (Home):

President's Letter

2007 Annual Conference Date Set

Board Elections begin this month!

ACRL Legislative Advocates Needed

Interest Group Reports:

Chapter Member News:

Board Minutes, January 9, 2007
Calendar Listings

LOCI Announcement

Jim Kinnie, University of Rhode Island
Co-Chair, Librarians on Online Course Information

ACRL guidelines say that libraries should provide equivalent services to distance learners as they do for traditional students. Many New England librarians are striving to do just that given the resources available to them.

On March 9, 2007 LOCI will host two librarians who work with distance learners and who use Blackboard to facilitate services.

Since 1991, Ed Daniels has been coordinating library services to distance learners at Southern New Hampshire University (then New Hampshire College) as the Off-Campus Services Librarian. Ed will summarize how off-campus library services have developed over the years at SNHU, demonstrate the current status of his involvement in online classes, and present a picture of some of the elements that can make up a typical "Day/Night in the Life of an Off-Campus Services Librarian".

For the past six years April Purcell Levy has been Reference Coordinator and Instruction Librarian at Lesley University. Prior to working at Lesley, she was the Off-Campus Services Librarian at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. April has worked collaboratively to develop the contents and structure of the "my library" section of Lesley's portal, which is powered by Blackboard, and she is currently working with other librarians at Lesley to develop an Advanced Library Research Community that will operate similarly to a course in Blackboard.

More details will be available on the LOCI Web site - http://www.acrlnec.org/sigs/lociig/lociig.html