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Remoteness, isolation, learning at one's pace and in one's domicile are factors peculiar to distance education and learning. These factors constitute new elements and issues that areย relavant to any consideration of library and information services for distance learning. So what are the distinctive features of distance librarianship in distance education. Please discuss and contribute your views.
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In any academic community, the library plays a central support role in the educational program and must be responsive to curriculum development, to group and individual learning needs, and to changes in teaching methods. Librarians thus have a crucial role to play in assisting learners to become critical thinkers by helping them to develop their research skills and the ability to critically analyze information they retrieve. By IT tools, librarians have the opportunity to expand their traditional roles and work more closely with counselors and students to provide suitable tools, materials and references as well as instructional services.
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Thanks Mr. Tripathi for sharing your vital views.
Dear Sirji,
Topic for discussion is great.
as per my knowledge I would like to contribute my points for This topic
Librarian should work as Mediator in Curriculam and Student on behalf of the Distance Educationย University.
Mostly Distance Education Universities provide Syllabus copy and Study Note as per Syllabus.
# So librarian collect syllabus of each courseย and find out the Books for each chapter make a list .
# Collect digital Booksย same way and upload on site and gives access based onย role number
# Provide RSS feed service in which display new arrivals in digital form books
# Collect Email address of the Students and keep in contact with them - work as refernce librarian on email
# Make available library desk online for studentsย via twitter, yahoo instant messages.
# Build up Digital collection more then printed material
provide Syllabus copy and study note online too. etc.
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Prachi Deshpande
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Dear Prachi thanks for touching key areas in this service.
Dear Handa Sir,
As my opinion and experience in distance education system, I think Distance Librarian has to play very crucial role rather then the librarian of regular institute/college because of following reason:
1. In Distance Education System more then 80% students are working professionals, therefore the cann't use the library;
2. Interaction between teacher and student are very minimal/some time interaction session never taken place so distance librarian has to help them to solve their academic problems;
3. In most cases distance learners have responsibility towards their employment, home etc.result lake of time towards their study or use the library.
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Therefore, the following role have to play by distance institution librarian:
1. If E-resources being subscribe by university/institution then remote access facility should be provide the learners (at least their subject related accessibility);
2. Organise orientation programme time to time to tell the learners about important of library, how to benefit from it;
3. Distance Librarian should organise some chat session/audio conferencing/video conferencing on different subject time to time at least daily in a week, so that student can take the benefit from it and prepare a pre-schedule, so that it can send to respective students/it can be uploaded institution website;
4. Flexibility in circulation, more books should be issued to learners, so that they can be benefit from it;
5. Help the students how to getting several things like old question paper, several issues problem solving (if subjective, refer to particular subject expert), assignment solving and getting the materials etc;
6. With the help of creating blogs, websites etc he can help the student;
7. WEB-OPAC, Bibliography of books and journal articles of different subjects help scholars in distance education;
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with kind regards
HS Bisht
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Thanks Har Singh for an elaborative information on the topic
I,m still expecting more details from LIS Professionals........
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