Being somewhat prejudiced since I have an MLS, have been a school
librarian, and now work for a company producing print and electronic
indexes and databases... I feel that any school offering distance
education should allow those students the same access to electronic
resources as a student physically on campus. There might be a few
exceptions, but they would be rare.
What should a degree granting insitution with no set base do? I feel
they should have a central electronic library with the resources
needed to support their courses of study. Students would be able to
use it and be authenicated as legitimate students. After all, if they
can take money for tuition, and keep track of grades, they have a
means of identifying their students.
In the same light, any student taking courses for a degree should
have access the the electronic resources of the library from remote
locations. Remote access isn't hard anymore, and setting it up is
usually easy. All it takes is a bit of effort on the part of the
library's technical folk and the vendor's technical folk. I won't go
into details, but the keywords for those who want to know more are
'proxy servers'.
Dan Robinson
HW Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com
On 26 Jul 2003 at 9:58, Sharron L. McElmeel wrote:
> You are correct -- thank you for the details.
>
> A couple of philosophical questions for the LM_NET group:
>
> Can legitimate distance learning opportunities be offered by
> legitimate organizations that do not have a brick and mortar campus
> (after all Amazon.com does not have a brick and mortar store and I
> would think most would consider them legitimate -- does education
> differ and why?)
>
> Also if one is taking a distance learning course it would see to me
> that a library at the place of origin is not a drawing point. Access
> to an appropriate library close to the student's location would be of
> great concern. Thoughts on this topic!
>
> Sharron
>
>
>
> >On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 11:28 PM, Sharron L. McElmeel wrote:
> >
> >>Several mentioned Phoenix University (Arizona)
>
> >Suzanne Ng, Librarian reponded
> > Are you sure they didn't mean the University of Phoenix (which is a
> >private, for profit business, not associated with Arizona's state
> >university system). They are trying to open a branch campus here in
> >NJ, but our Dept of Higher Ed has been fighting it. -- Apparently NJ
> >has stricter rules about what can be considered a college - for one,
> >they have to have a library, which U of P does not. (they usually set
> >up shop in an office building , not your typical college setting) .
>
>
>
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