This is a highly selective listing of sites to visit - just enough to whet your appetite. The order of the references within each category is entirely random. The sites were last visited on 12 June 1999.

Guidelines/Standards

• Canadian Library Association's "Guidelines for Library Support of Distance and Distributed Learning in Canada (Draft)"
• American Library Association's "ACRL Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services (Approved July 1998)

Web design resources

• Student's Research Links
• Some Computer Web Sites of Interest
• The HTML Guru!
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
• Bobby, a web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with, and without, disabilities.
• The American Library Association’s Library Instruction Round Table “Website Evaluation Criteria”

Sites with library tutorials

• Rochester Institute of Technology's"Scavenger Hunt" of the Wallace Library is a fill in the blanks for that allows the students to test their knowledge of Wallace Library, its services, resources and research strategies.
• Southeastern Louisiana University's Library Tutorial Index.
• Library Research at Cornell: A Hypertext Guide.

Sites offering outlines on how to do research

• University of Calgary has a page on "Getting Started" which includes: Strategies for Doing a Paper; Research Tips and Strategies (includes a handout on citation searching); Library Catalogue Help; Database Help Pages; Subject-based Guides to Library Resources. The guides are primarily for people who come into the library, but they are interesting and could be redone to link to only Web sources.
• Nova Southeastern University has tutorials and help sheets online to help with research.
• Washington State University offers a tutorial on doing research and also one designed for their English 101 class. There are also handouts which have to be downloaded to access.
• With the University of Minnesota's Research QuickStart, the student can begin his/her research for undergraduate papers and speeches. It is designed to provide help with the first steps of the research process and "to give lists of, and links to, essential resources tailored to" the area of study.
• The University of Arizona has developed an evaluation form which allows students to evaluate the library instruction they have received in class and on the Web.

Sites with reference forms

• Carleton College
• Florida Distance Learning Reference & Referral Center
• The Internet Public Library
• Acadia University

Some interesting reading

• Heidig, Lance J. October 1998. "Explaining the Information Universe in 50 Minutes or Less: Using the World Wide Web for Library Instruction," Paper presented at the North American Web Developers Conference, [Online], [Accessed 10 May 1999].

  Heidig has developed a library instruction template which is filled in to support individual courses. He has given an example of the template filled in for Science and Technology Studies 119.

• Sloan, Bernie. 16 December 1997, "Service perspectives for the digital library: remote reference services", [Online], [Accessed 25 October 1999].

  Sloan's presentation identifies, and discusses, a number of types of remote reference services and povides links to institutions where these services are offered.

Web-conferences on distance education

• Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning - the 15th annual conference is in Madison, Wisconsin (August 4-6, 1999).
• Off-Campus Library Services Conference - the 9th conference is in Portland, Oregon (April 26-28, 2000).

Distance education associations

• Canadian Library Association Library Instruction Interest Group
• American Library Association/ACRL Distance Learning Section
• Canadian Association for Distance Education
• NODE Learning Technologies Network - especially the online forums.

Listservs

• DISTLIB-L - Services for Distance Learning Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association. To subscribe send an e-mail message to listserv@lib.lakeheadu.ca with the message subscribe distlib-l (first name) (last name) in body of message.
• OFFCAMP - Off-Campus Library Services. To subscribe send an e-mail message to listserv@wayne.edu with sub offcamp your name
• DEOS-L - The Distance Education on Line Symposium. To subscribe send an e-mail to listserv@psuvm.psu.edu with the message subscribe deos-l yourfirstname yourlastname.
• BI-L - Bibliographic Instruction Discussion Group. To subscribe to this list send the text: subscribe BI-L yourfirstname yourlastname in the body of the message to: listserv@listserv.byu.edu