Library Services for Business Students in Distance Education »

Thirteen contributions from library professionals discuss some of the issues involved in serving business students enrolled in distance education programs. Topics include, for example, collaborating with faculty, a metadata scheme for cataloging Web pages, and copyright considerations when making materials available electronically. The volume has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, Vol. 7, Nos. 2/3 2002. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Published simultaneously as Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship (Vol. 7, Nos. 2/3), this is a mix of articles written by some of the leaders in distance learning librarianship, including Michael Seadle, Anne Marie Casey, and Leslie Behm. With plenty of experience at Michigan State University's Gast Business Library, editor Buxbaum skillfully amalgamates several general essays with a set of nine case studies of academic libraries that serve distance learners and faculty in business schools. Readers will be able to use the book as a yardstick to critique their own existing service programs or as a blueprint to design library programs for new distance business initiatives. Because each article was written to stand alone, the reader finds the ACRL Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services reintroduced in four of the 13 articles. As is often the case in our field, parts of the book are already outdated: the TEACH Act, passed by Congress in late 2002, adds new copyright considerations to Seadle's otherwise excellent chapter, "The Copyright-Distance Learning Disconnect." Additionally, there is almost no discussion of digital "chat" reference. Overall, however, this title conveys the best practices and will be helpful to any librarian who deals with business students in distance programs.-Beth Stahr, Southeastern Louisiana Univ. Lib., Hammond Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.