IGI Global Offers Online Symposium - Innovative Techniques for Online and Distance Library Users

University librarians play an integral role in the academic success of students. Collaborations with faculty and administrators provides students with more complete information literacy and encourages critical thinking skills.

In the June edition of IGI Global's Online Symposium Series, Montana State University librarians Mary Anne Hansen and Sheila Bonnard will share their experiences in expanding instructional services by adding synchronous library instruction to better serve online students and faculty across the globe. They will discuss how they have utilized web conferencing for the past four years to embed interactive, high-touch library instruction in online courses. This effort was launched to provide and ensure that students taking classes online are afforded the opportunities for library instruction just like students in traditional on-campus courses.

This symposium is based on Hansen and Bonnard's chapter "Embedded Librarians: Delivering Synchronous Library Instruction and Research Assistance to Meet Needs of Distance Students and Faculty" in Interactivity in E-Learning: Case Studies and Frameworks.

It is scheduled for Thursday, June 27, at 1:00 p.m. CDT. Click here to register.