...Abdul Hakim Hassan Mustafa Mohamed; Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah; Mohamed Izzeldin AbdelRahman Bashir; Maia Alhajri; Akbar Khanan; Zaheer Abbas Purpose In the COVID-19 pandemic, students were subjected to high pressure when they were forced to move to distance learning in a lockdown environment...

... be contacted at: shiv.mail@gmail.com 07 09 2019 03 12 2019 18 01 2020 21 01 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Gender India Higher education Students Distance learning Library profession Distance education...

... in Library and Information Management (CERLIM), Manchester Metropolitan University . London : Facet Publishing   2008 . viii + 255 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 978 1 85604 623 7 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Distance learning Electronic publishing Digital libraries Back...

...Trevor Peare Library instruction Remote learning Distance learning Higher education This book explores the very broad range of issues that arise when librarians are faced with providing information resource support for distance students. There are 18 chapters, mainly based...

..., knowledge bases were widely used in the corporate setting but were too expensive to implement in libraries. Wikis might be a cost‐effective way of managing a knowledge base in the academic library. Distance learning Academic libraries Libraries Digital libraries Reference services E‐learning...

...   £44.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Distance learning Library management Library services It was quite a few years ago now that the Library's walls effectively came tumbling down; although to mix the metaphor, a number of significant drawbridges were also raised...

... services and academic plans and to alleviate the dichotomy that exists between library and academic departments cannot be emphasized more. Fostering awareness of library services via marketing and support to distance students is also illustrated as key to the success of the distance learning library...

... by conventional educational methods. Those in need of workplace learning and similar forms of educational outreach are an important subset of this population. Design/methodology/approach This is a historical account of distance learning in LIS education in Pakistan, with particular reference to the role...

... that this research will give some insight into how this problem can be dealt with. Originality/value of paper This contribution to an under‐researched area should stimulate further work on this topic. Distance learning Students Nigeria Experience has shown that many part‐time students do not make...

...Stuart James Distance Learning Libraries Library services Electronic resources Distance learning is nothing new, of course: correspondence courses and the like have been around over a hundred years and more. Nor is today’s lifelong learning and social inclusion environment anything new...

... such as Calvert’s on document delivery are both lengthy and explore issues which may seem less relevant to a UK context. A particularly useful piece by Caspers explores the impact of the ever active ACRL and its “Guidelines for distance learning library services”. Many pieces relate to Web‐based courses or Web...

... Technological change Distance learning Internet Library services This book does exactly what it says on the cover – a “how‐to‐do‐it manual for librarians”. Attracting, Educating and Serving Remote Users through the Web is timely (just‐in‐time) and practical, challenging the traditional role...

.... , ISBN: ISBN 1 85604 436 X (hardback)   £39.95 Distance learning Virtual reality Academic libraries This is the fourth in a series of conference proceedings – the first in 1995 (edited by Ann Irving and Geoff Butters, 1997), the second in 1998 (edited by Brophy, Fisher and Clarke...

... at independence, and the yearning of various governments to improve educationally the lot of people, which gave birth to the obvious option of distance learning. Unfortunately the economic downturn affected proper funding of education and provision of resources including provision of library facilities...

...John W. Ellison Describes the nature of distance learning and its increasing use in the present and for the future. Approaches for libraries to support distance learning are indicated and the importance of libraries of all kinds becoming involved with support for distance learners stressed...

... Librarians Education Distance learning Pakistan In Pakistan, there are 6,034 libraries, while library schools at the six universities in the country have only produced so far about 4,100 professionally qualified librarians who obtained at least a first degree, namely a Postgraduate Diploma...

.... Evidence from the review of literature, the questionnaire survey and the programme of interviews is drawn together and analysed in order to indicate the key areas which have to be addressed by libraries in institutions which are aspiring to offer open and distance learning education. Given the rapid...