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crln-23048	Section Guidelines Committee, The ACRL Distance Learning	ACRL STANDARDS & GUIDELINES: Guidelines for distance learning library services: A draft revision	2003	7	.pdf	application/pdf	4887	134	29	Revising the guidelines Today’s “G uidelines” are the culm ination of the following series of ACRL documents, the first o f which originated in processes initiated in 1963: “Guidelines for library services to extension stu­ dents,” 1967; Guidelines for extended campus li­ brary services,” 1981; “Guidelines for extended cam­ pus library services,” 1990; “Guidelines for distance learning library services,” 1998; and “Guidelines for distance learning library services,” 2000. Examples of these measures in­ clude, but are not limited to: a) conducting general library knowledge surveys of beginning students, re-offered at a mid-point in the students’ careers and again near graduation, to assess whether the library’s program of instruction is producing more information-literate students; b) using evaluation checklists for librarian and tutorial instruction to gather feedback from stu­ dents, other librarians, and teaching faculty; c) tracking student library use through student journal entries or information literacy diaries; d) asking focus groups of students, faculty, staff, and alumni to comment on their experiences using distance learning library services over a period of time; e) employing assessment and evaluation by li­ brarians from other institutions a n d /o	cache/crln-23048.pdf	txt/crln-23048.txt