Separate but Unequal? Do Web-Based Services Fulfill Their Promises?

Abstract

SummaryAs many universities seek to increase the number of off-campus programs as a source of revenue, librarians are challenged to provide a growing number of Web-based services to this population. Librarians must enhance these programs to ensure that distance education students are afforded adequate and equal services to those received by their on-campus counterparts. This program seeks to examine current Web-based services to distance education students. The ACRL guidelines as well as SACS guidelines will be used as evaluation tools for Web-based services to distance students.