 Distance learners want to know how to login the main campus computer library from their PCs at home, work, or extension site. They want to know also how to make database selections, how to conduct expanded database searches. They do not want to read manuals. They want access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, periodical full-text articles, catalogs, reviews, biographies and statistics. They want to have information about how to evaluate authors, books, and journals-especially Internet sources.
There is a great necessity in library expectations of learners, as revealed in the literature. The ACRL "Guidelines for Extended Campus Library Services" (Association of College and Research Libraries) emerged in case there weren't any support for the most libraries. There wasn't any support for their distance education programs. Kascus surveyed members of the American Library Association (ALA) to examine the extent of support for off-campus. Also to examine the distance education programs in the curricula of schools library and information sciences. In 1931 it was the first organization that recognized the inadequacy of library support services for off-campus learners. Only 33 percent of Kascus's sample recognized the need to expand their curricula. This is in case to address the support of off-campus and distance education learners. There were sampled a few libraries from different schools. 36 percent of them included topics on library support in their 1991 curricula. Another few realized the growth and impact of distance education on support services for off-campus distance education learners (Kascus, 1994). Also Kascus's study examined the attitudes of library deans. Their directors regard the issues surrounding off-campus services. Findings indicated that support for off-campus distance education programs has been minimally represented. There is a low priority for most library school deans and directors. Kascus concluded that libraries should be more user-centered rather than library-oriented.
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