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Item Table of Contents(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana LibrariesItem Cover(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana LibrariesItem Coping With Success: Distance Learning in Indiana Higher Education(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Scott, Susan B.A sage once cautioned, “Be careful what you wish for lest you get it.” Accomplishing significant enrollments in distance learning now confronts Indiana’s higher education institutions with new challenges in handling that success. Though popular media still speak of distance learning as new or experimental, Indiana’s higher education community has been practicing it for nearly a century. Indiana University’s independent study program dates to the early 1900’s, and Purdue began broadcasting college classes by radio in the thirties. Purdue and IU began inter-campus course delivery in 1961 that led to creation of the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS) in 1967. Thus, Indiana’s institutions and their faculties have a history of creativity in using technology to support, improve, and deliver postsecondary education, even though we also have a deep-seated tradition of doing rather than bragging. We take for granted what others, several years later, loudly proclaim as “innovative” or “unprecedented.”Item Postsecondary Distance Learners and Public Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Barsun, RitaElsewhere in this issue Anne Haynes describes the challenges and opportunities within an academic library system that offers services to distance learners. This article also addresses the challenges and opportunities presented by the library needs of distance learners, but outside an academic library system.Item Minds, A New Way of Learning*(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Holt, Tim J.INCOLSA and the Indiana State library have worked the last few years on creating a video conference network among Indiana Libraries. Today, there are 18 sites around the state using state of the art equipment, paid for with LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) funding, to interact and train the staff and public via Distance Learning. These sites include 16 public libraries, INCOLSA and the Indiana State Library.Item Indiana Libraries Guest Editor Guidelines(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana LibrariesItem Distance Learning Library Services: Challenges and Opportunities for an Academic Library System(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Haynes, AnneThis article evolved out of a presentation given at the 2002 Indiana Library Federation (ILF) Conference in Indianapolis, as my contribution to the panel discussion, “Distance Learning: Challenge or Opportunity,” sponsored by the ILF Continuing Education Committee. The presentations by the other librarians on that panel – from a public library, a high school, and a community college – certainly expanded my awareness of the various kinds of exciting endeavors that other types of Indiana libraries are engaged in that are made possible by distance technology. The kinds of distance education (DE) services offered by an academic library system reflect its need to provide seamless library service to students and faculty, regardless of their location, to meet the specific needs of teaching/learning and research. And among academic institutions, each views and organizes DE differently, according to its academic mission. The library’s services for DE students must be responsive to the mission of the institution.Item Indiana Library Federation Publication Subscription Information(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana LibrariesItem Indiana Libraries Submission Guidelines(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana LibrariesItem Video Conference Technology Programming: Greenwood Public Library's Adventure into the Unknown(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Orr, JanineIn 1997 the Greenwood Public Library (GPL) received a grant from Ameritech and the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration/CILC, formerly CEC. Public libraries had for years throughout the United States offered university courses through a variety of distance learning technologies, including the Internet, cable TV and video conference technology. Ameritech and CILC were curious about the possibilities of using program content providers in Indiana to present non-classroom programs to libraries. The GPL Board of Trustees asked me if I would take on the task of developing video conference programming. Working with CILC, I soon saw the potential for life-long learning programs for all age groups. The first task was to find an easy target audience, one that would be receptive to the technology and the two-way interactive capabilities. Children, ages 7-12 are continuously attuned to all kinds of video and audio input, so they were the obvious first audience. The Indianapolis Zoo was quick to work with me in setting up a Summer Series for 10 weeks in 1997. Schools, home school associations and ads in local newspapers attracted a small group that first year. Even the children were not totally aware of the interactive properties of video conferencing. During a program with the seals, one of the seals apparently heard the voices of the children, turned and walked directly over to the camera and monitor and started watching us. That episode got the message across and word of mouth soon spread throughout Greenwood. Video Conference technology had arrived at the GPL.