Library Services to Distance Learners - the New Professional Paradigms
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This workshop will examine the issues that professional librarians/information facilitators confront while attempting to deliver quality library and information services to distance learners. Also detailed are a number of new paradigms that distance librarianship has introduced into the profession of librarianship.
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