Benchmarks in distance education : the LIS experience / edited by Daniel D. Barron.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. If It's Friday, We're in Gadsden or Mobile: Distance Education at the University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies / Joan L. Atkinson -- 2. Distance Education at the School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona / Charles A. Seavey -- 3. Dominican University (River Forest, IL) and the College of St. Catherine (St. Paul, MN) Distance Learning Experience / Mary Wagner and Prudence Dalrymple -- 4. Maintaining High Touch for Effective Distance Education: The Emporia Experience / Daniel Roland -- 5. Distributed Learning in the Florida State University School of Information Studies / Gary Burnett, Kathleen Burnett and Don Latham -- 6. Distance Learning at the University of Hawai'i: Serving the Underserved in an Island State / Violet H. Harada -- 7. Distance Education at the University of Illinois / Leigh Estabrook -- 8. The Indiana Virtual Classroom: Interaction through Two-Way Video / Daniel Callison, Shirley A. Fitzgibbons and Edward J. Jurewicz -- 9. Ohio LEARN: Distributed Education in Library and Information Science at Kent State University / Danny P. Wallace and Connie Van Fleet -- 10. The Distance Learning Program at the University of Kentucky's School of Library and Information Science / Timothy W. Sineath -- 11. The School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University: Distance Education Program / Alma Dawson -- 12. Distributed Learning: The Development of Courses and Programs in LIS at the University of Missouri-Columbia / Thomas R. Kochtanek, Charley Seavey and John Wedman -- 13. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Master of Library and Information Studies / Beatrice Kovacs -- 14. What We Can Learn from Automating the Card Catalog? Distributed Learning at the University of North Texas / Philip M. Turner -- 15. Partnership in Multisite Distance Learning: A Cooperative Program for Master's Degrees in Librarianship at North Texas / Keith Swigger and Phil Turner -- 16. "The Spirit of Learning Is a Lasting Frontier": Distance Education in Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma / Danny P. Wallace -- 17. The University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences Distance Education: Past, Present, and Future / Susan Webreck Alman, Christinger Tomer and Kara Lizik Pilarsky -- 18. The University of Rhode Island Regional Program Distance Education in New England / C. Herbert Carson -- 19. The Tortoise May Be Right: The Movement Toward Distance Education at Rutgers University / Kay E. Vandergrift and Karen Novick -- 20. Distance Education at San Jose State University / Blanche Woolls and David V. Loertscher -- 21. Opening the Door to Distance Learners in South Carolina: The College of Library and Information Science Story / Daniel D. Barron -- 22. Distance Education at the School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida / James O. Carey and Vicki L. Gregory -- 23. The University of Southern Mississippi School of Library and Information Science Distance Education History and Programs / M. J. Norton -- 24. A Tradition of Innovation: The Syracuse University Experience / Ruth V. Small and Barbara Settel -- 25. The Enterprise Confronts the Nimitz: Distance Education at the School of Information Sciences, the University of Tennessee / Gretchen Whitney and George Hoemann -- 26. Dimensions of Students' Interactive Video-Based Distance Learning Experiences: A Qualitative Study Conducted at Texas Woman's University / Patricia Jackson Edwards -- 27. Distance Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies / Jane Pearlmutter -- 28. The Evolution of Distance Learning at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee / Wilfred Fong, Judith Senkevitch and Dietmar Wolfram.