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I. LEEP in the News

•  Atkins, Stacy. "Making a LEEP." July 24, 2006 libstaff links, Northwestern University Library.
• Silberstein, Nina. "Five Faces of Online Learning," AOL Research & Learn Guide. 
• Das, Neil E. "The Thrills of Thrift-store Librarianship," American Libraries (September, 2004): 46-47.
• Tennant, Roy. "Metadata Leadership," Library Journal 129, no. 13 (August 15, 2004): 27.
• Forest, Sharita "Students Benefit from Online Distance-learning Options," Inside Illinois (March 4, 2004).
• "Fresh Faces: The Third Conversation in this Series is with Melissa Henderson, Children's Librarian, Ela Area Public Library District in Lake Zurich," The Illinois Library Association Reporter 21, no. 3 (June 2003): 4-5.
• "Fresh Faces: The First Conversation in this Series is with Mary Pergander, Director of the Lake Bluff Public Library," The Illinois Library Association Reporter 21, no. 1 (February 2003): 4-5.
• Landphair, Ted  "Internet Has Many Uses," Radio broadcast on Voice of America (February 1, 2003).
• Kline, Greg  "Grads Seek Education Online," The News Gazette 150, no. 287 (May 12, 2002).
• "The award for Most Outstanding ALN Program will be awarded to the LEEP program...," Sloan-C Honors and Awards (November 16, 2001).
• Harmon, Amy "Cyberclasses in Session," The New York Times (November 11, 2001).
• Oder, Norman "LIS Distance Ed Moves Ahead," Library Journal 126, no. 16 (October 1, 2001): 54-56.
• Margaret Thomas, "Crossing Over...to the Corporate Sector," Library Journal 126, no. 14 (September 1, 2001).
• Johnson, Jennifer  "A Dream Come True," The Mount Prospect Journal (April 25 -30, 2001): 41. Available: Rose-Journal1A.jpg and Rose-Journal2A.jpg
• Marylaine Block, "How Well does Distance Learning Work?" ExLibris—an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies 83 (January 12, 2001).
• Carnevale, Dan "Researchers find Social Bonds to be Important in Distance Education," The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 5, 2000).
• Temkin, Jody  "A New Information Age," Chicago Tribune (October 1, 2000).
• Casey Moffitt, "New Program Offers Degrees with Online Classes," Oak Leaves (July 26, 2000).
• Galligan, Mary  "Distance Learning Takes a Leep3 Forward," Illinois Libraries 80, no. 4 (Fall 1998): 236-238.
• Radio talk show, "Focus 580," featuring Dean Leigh Estabrook and Information Technology Manager Vince Patone (October 9, 1998).
• Chepesiuk, Ron  "Learning without Walls," American Libraries (October 1998): 62-65.
• Net.LEARNING: The PBS Documentary (September 1998).

II. Articles about the LEEP experience from a student perspective

• Thompson, Catherine A.  "LEEPing to an Advanced Library School Degree," New England Libraries 2, No. 5 (June 2006). 
• Thompson, Kathryn "Confessions of a Covert Library Student: Distance Education and the Working Paraprofessional," PSRML Latitudes 12, no. 4 (July/August 2003).
• Ross, Larry  "Urbana-Champaign on the Potomac: The University of Illinois' LEEP Program," Law Library Lights 44, no. 5 (May/June 2001): 9-10.
• Ross, Lisa "Building Personal Communities in the Virtual Realm," ALKI 17, no. 1 (March 2001): 10-11. 
• Arnold, Allison  "Third Semester, Sixth Course," Informant, Bulletin of the Special Libraries Association, Illinois Chapter 65, no. 2 (November 2000): 14-15.
• Buxton, Karen A.  "Library Education at a Distance: The University of Illinois LEEP3 Program," ALKI 16, no. 3 (December 2000): 18-19. 
• Hall, Katherine  "Distance Education: An Insider's View," AALL Spectrum 4, no. 8 (May 2000): 30-31. 
• Claussen, Joanne  "Library School at the Turn of the New Millennium: One Student's Experience," Law Librarians in the New Millennium 1, no. 2 (Fall 1999): 2-7.

III. Informational articles by LEEP faculty, administrators and others

• Forte, Eric and Sherry DeDecker, "Distance Government Publications Instruction to Library School Students: Lessons Learned," Dttp: Documents to the People 33, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 28-31.
• Varlejs, Jana  "The Continuing Professional Development Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: A Profile in Synergism," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 45, no. 4 (Fall 2004): 370-374.
• Estabrook, Leigh S.  "Distance Education at the University of Illinois," in Benchmarks in Distance Education: The LIS Experience , ed. Daniel D. Barron (Westport CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003): 63-73.
• Maeroff, Gene I.  "Delivering the Goods," in A Classroom of One: How Online Learning is Changing our Schools and Colleges (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003): 20-33.
• Estabrook, Leigh S.  "Online Education and Organizational Transformation," Sloan-C View: Perspectives in Quality Online Eduation 1, no. 2 (October 2002): 3-5.
• Montague, Rae-Anne  "LEEPing into Challenge and Opportunity," Library Mosaics 13, no. 4 (July/August 2002): 8-9.
• Kazmer, Michelle M.  "Distance Education Students Speak to the Library: Here's How You Can Help Even More," The Electronic Library 20, no. 5 (2002): 395-400.
• Searing, Susan E. and Yan Xu "Supporting Distance Education with Technology: The Library's Role," Informant, Bulletin of the Special Libraries Association, Illinois Chapter 66, no. 1 (September 2001): 7,10-12.
• Jenkins, Christine "Far Out Learning," School Library Journal 46, no. 2 (February 2000): 46-49.
•  Hearne, Betsy "Once There Was and Will Be: Storytelling the Future," Horn Book Magazin e 76, no. 6 (November/December 2000): 712-719.
• "Teaching at an Internet Distance: The Pedagogy of Online Teaching and Learning" (Faculty Seminar, December 1999). 
• Smith, Linda C.  "Pedagogy in Educating Information Specialists: Lessons Learned from Internet-based Distance Education," Paper presented at the German-Dutch University Conference "Information Specialists in the 21 st Century" (Fachhochschule Hannover University of Applied Sciences Department of Information and Communication, October 14-15, 1999).
• Estabrook, Leigh S. "Will Distance Education Destroy the University?" Lazerow Lecture (Florida State University, September 17, 1999).
• Estabrook, Leigh S. "New Forms of Distance Education: Opportunities for Students, Threats to Institutions," Paper presented at the ACRL 9th National Conference "Racing Toward Tomorrow" (April 1999)
• Estabrook, Leigh S. "Building Communities through Information Technoloa gies," Paper presented at the University YMCA (Champaign, IL, April 16, 1999).
• Bowker ,Geoffrey C., Vincenzo Patone, and Susan Searing "The University of Illinois Graduate Library School LEEPs into the Future," in SPEC Kit 234 Transforming Libraries: Issues and Innovations in Distance Learning (ARL, 1998): 23-27.
• Schneider, Karen G.  "Internet Librarian: A Giant LEEP Forward," American Libraries (February 1998): 64.
• Woodbury, Marsha  "LEEP3—Distance Education Tips," in The Cyclone of Change: Natural Disaster or Carnival Ride? (NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 1997): 151-152.
• Woodbury, Marsha  "A LEEP into Distance Education," ALN Magazine 1, no. 2 (August 1997). Available: http://old.sloanconsortium.org/publications/magazine/v1n2/woodbury.asp
• Woodbury, Marsha  "LEEPing into Distance Education," The CPSR Newsletter 15, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 11-12.
• Estabrook, Leigh S.  "LEEP3 at the University of Illinois, " Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 38, no. 2 (Spring 1997): 157-160.
• Strong, Robert W. and Glynn E. Harmon, "Online Graduate Degrees: A Review of Three Internet-based Master's Degree Offerings," The American Journal of Distance Education 11, no. 3 (1997): 58-70.

IV. Research articles, presentations, chapters, etc.

• Montague, Rae-Anne, Linda C. Smith, Kathryn A. Allen, and Bruce R. Kingma, "Connecting Across Campuses: Building Sustainable Models for Online Education through Collaboration," Panel presentation at the Tenth Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (Orlando, FL, November 13, 2004).
• Montague, Rae-Anne "Gauging Success and Guiding Improvement through Faculty-Student Dialogue," Paper presented at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning First Annual Conference (Bloomington, IN, October 22, 2004).
• Lawton, Pat and Rae-Anne Montague, "Discovering and Describing Best Practice: Using Faculty-Student Dialogue to Guide Improvement," Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning (Madison, WI, August 6, 2004).
• Searing, Susan E. "All in the Family: Library Services for LIS Online Education," Paper presented at the Eleventh Off- Campus Library Services Conference (Scottsdale, AZ, May 7, 2004).
• Lesht, Faye L., Holly McCracken, Rae-Anne Montague, and Najmuddin Shaik, "Services that Work for Retaining Students in Online Degree Programs," Panel presentation at the Illinois Council on Continuing Higher Education Annual Conference (Peoria, IL, February 19, 2004).
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline and Michelle M. Kazmer (Eds.), Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice . (New York: Peter Lang, 2004).
• Kingma, Bruce, Linda Smith, Allyson Carlyle, and Rae-Anne Montague, "Connecting Across Campuses: Key Issues in Establishing Collaborative Inter-Institutional Agreements for Distance Education," Paper presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference (San Diego, CA, January 6, 2004).
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline, "Supporting Distributed Relationships: Social Networks of Relations and Media Use Over Time," Electronic Journal of Communication 13, no. 1 (2003).
• Montague, Rae-Anne, Linda C. Smith, Bruce R. Kingma, Kathryn A. Allen, Allyson Carlyle, and Grace Beauchane Whiteaker, "Connecting Across Campuses: Key Issues in Establishing Collaborative Inter-Institutional Agreements for Online Education," Paper presented at the 9th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (Orlando, FL, November 14-16, 2003).
• Kazmer, Michelle M., "Online Learning and Community Embeddedness: How Existing Ties Transform The Growth Of Relationships Between Educational And Community Settings," Paper presented at the Information, Communication, and Society / Oxford Internet Institute Symposium (Oxford, UK, September 17-20, 2003).
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline and Michelle Kazmer, "Bringing the Internet Home: Adult Distance Learners and their Internet, Home and Work Worlds," in The Internet in Everyday Life , eds. Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite (Oxford, UK: Blackwell's Publishers, 2002): 431-463.
• Lesht, Faye and Najmuddin Shaik, "Best Practices in Helping Students Complete Online Graduate Degree Programs," Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning (Madison, WI, August 4-6, 2003).
• Montague, Rae-Anne "LEEP Retreat: Exploring Best Practices in Online Education," Paper presented at the Distance Learning Administration Conference (Jekyll Island, GA, June 1-4, 2003). Available in Distance Learning Administration 2003 Annual (Carrollton: State University of West Georgia): 101-104.
• Montague, Rae-Anne and Pat Lawton, "Articulating a Model for LIS Distance Education: Reflections on Research and Practice from the LEEP Retreat," Paper presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference (Philadelphia, PA, January 23, 2003).
• Bregman, Alvan and Caroline Haythornthwaite, "Radicals of Presentation: Visibility, Relation, and Co-presence in Persistent Conversation," New Media and Society 5, no. 1 (2003): 117-140.
• Estabrook, Leigh S. "Rethinking Cost-Benefit Models of Distance Learning," in Elements of Quality Online Education , eds. John Bourne and Janet C. Moore (Needham, MA: Sloan Center for Online Education, 2002): 71-80.
• Robins, Jenny, "Affording a Place: The Role of Persistent Structures in Social Navigation," Information Research 7, no. 3 (2002).
• Runleder, Karen, "Understanding On-line Community: The Affordances of Virtual Space," Information Research 7, no. 3 (2002).
• Kazmer, Michelle "Disengaging from Intrinsically Transient Social Worlds: The Case of a Distance Learning Community," Doctoral dissertation (2002). Available: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mkazmer/kazmer_disengagement_ITSW.pdf
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline, "Strong, Weak and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media," The Information Society 18, no. 5 (October, 2002): 385 - 401.
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline and Barry Wellman, "The Internet in Everyday Life," American Behavioral Scientist 45, no.3 (November 2001).
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline, "Building Social Networks via Computer Networks: Creating and Sustaining Distributed Learning Communities," in Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace , eds. Ann Renninger and Wes Shumar (Cambridge University Press, 2002): 159-190.
• Ruhleder, Karen "On-Line Interaction: Engagement and Authority in the Chat+Audio Classroom," Submitted to the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
• Kazmer, Michelle M. and Caroline Haythornthwaite, "Juggling Multiple Social Worlds: Distance Students Online and Offline," American Behavioral Scientist 45, no. 3 (November 2001): 510-529.
• Smith, Linda C., Sarai Lastra, and Jennifer Robins, "Teaching Online: Changing Models of Teaching and Learning in LEEP," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 42, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 348-363.
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline "Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class," Information Society (July-September 2001).
• Robins, Jenny "Social Navigation and the Role of Persistent Structures in a Collaborative Virtual Environment," in Proceedings of the European Perspectives on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ECSCL, Maastrich, the Netherlands, March 22-24, 2001).
• Tyler, Alyson "A Survey of Distance Learning Library and Information Science Courses Delivered via the Internet," Education for Information 19, no. 1 (March 2001): 47-59.
• Bregman, Alvan and Caroline Haythornthwaite, "Radicals of Presentation in Persistent Conversation," in Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference On System Sciences (Maui, HI, January 3-6, 2001).
• Haythornwaite, Caroline "Tie Strength and the Impact of New Media," in Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference On System Sciences (Maui, HI, January 3-6, 2001).
• Twigg, Carol A. "Innovations in Online Learning: Moving Beyond No Significant Difference," Pew Learning and Technology Program, 2001.
• Smith, Linda C. "Faculty Satisfaction in LEEP: A Web-based Graduate Degree Program in Library and Information Science," in Online Education Volume 2: Proceedings of the 2000 Sloan Summer Workshop on Asynchronous Learning Networks, ed. Janet C. Moore (Needham, MA: Sloan Center for Online Education, 2001): 87-108.
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline, Michelle Kazmer, Jennifer Robins, and Susan Shoemaker, "Community Development among Distance Learners: Temporal and Technological Dimensions," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 6, no. 1 (September 2000).
• Ruhleder, Karen and Michael Twidale, "Reflective Collaborative Learning on the Web: Drawing on the Master Class," First Monday 5, no. 5 (May 2000).
• Ruhleder, Karen "The Virtual Ethnographer: Fieldwork in Distributed Electronic Environments," Field Methods 12, no. 1 (2000): 3-17.
• Kazmer, Michelle and Caroline Haythornthwaite, "Managing Multiple Social Worlds: Distance Students On and Offline," Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference (Lawrence, KS, Sept 14-17, 2000). This paper is in preparation for special issue of American Behavioral Scientist , 2001; a draft is available by request from the authors.
• Kazmer, Michelle "Coping in Distance Education," First Monday 5, no. 9 (September 2000). 
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline "Online Personal Networks: Size, Composition and Media Use among Distance Learners," New Media and Society 2, no. 2 (2000): 195-226.
• Ruhleder, Karen "Creating Network Community: Workable Space in a Virtual Landscape," in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning , eds. Christopher Hoadley and Jeremy Rochelle (Palo Alto, CA, December 12-15, 1999): 503-509.
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline "Collaborative Work Networks among Distributed Learners," in Proceedings of the 32nd Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, January 1999). Available from the HICSS digital library, track "New Curriculum and Courses and Collaboration Systems and Technology".`
• Lavagnino, Merri Beth, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Bryan Heidorn and Mindy M. Basi, "Incorporating Social Informatics into the Curriculum for Library and Information Science Professionals," Libri 48 (1998): 13-25.
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline, "A Social Network Study of the Growth of Community among Distance Learners," Paper presented at the IRISS International Conference, (Bristol, UK, March 25-27, 1998).
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline, "Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class," The Information Society (1998).

V. Other related information available online

• ACM's eLearn Magazine: Education and Technology in Perspective.
• American Distance Education Consortium, ADEC Guiding Principles for Distance Teaching and Learning.
• Barron, Ann "A Teacher's Guide to Distance Learning" (Tampa, FL: Florida Center for Instructional Technology, February 1999).
• Burnett, Kathleen "Interaction and Student Retention, Success and Satisfaction in Web-based Learning," Paper presented at the 67th IFLA Council and General Conference, Boston, MA, August 16-25, 2001.
• Feenberg, Andrew "Distance Learning: Promise or Threat?" (1999).
• Graham, Charles, Karsat Cagiltay, Byung-Ro Lim, Joni Craner and Thomas M. Duffy, "Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses," Technology Source (March/April 2001). 
• Hsu, Shihkuan and Bertram C. Bruce, "The Missing Borders: Pedagogical Reflections from Distance Education," Teaching Education 10, no. 1 (1998): 47-54.
• Illinois Online Network, "Online Learning: An Overview."
• The Institute for Higher Education Policy, "Quality on the Line: Benchmarks for Success in Internet-Based Education," April 2000.
• Kassop, Mark "Ten Ways Online Education Matches or Surpasses, Face-to-face Learning," Technology Source (May/June, 2003).
• Knox, E. L. Skip "The Rewards of Teaching On-Line," Paper presented at the American Historical Association Annual Conference (January 2000).
• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.
• PBS, WLAE, Adult Learning Service, Distance Learning (2001).
• Russell, Thomas L. "No Significant Difference Phenomenon: As Reported in 355 Research Reports, Summaries, and Papers" (Raleigh, NC: NCSU, 1999).
• Sloan-C Quality Framework: "Five Pillars of Effective Practices".
• Sener, John "Online Learning: Myths, Realities, Pathways to Reform," 2002.
• Sheldon, Brooke E. "Distance Education in Library and Information Science Studies: Administrative Issues and Implications Form a Pilot Study on Power and Status among Recent Graduates," Paper presented at the 64th IFLA General Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 16-21, 1998.
• Sherry, Lorraine "Issues in Distance Learning," International Journal of Educational Telecommunications 1, no. 4 (1996): 337-365.
• Transforming Libraries 6 "Distance Learning" (ARL, September 1998).

VI. Online education directories featuring LIS programs

• ALA Accredited Program Directory
• Gradschools
• Illinois Virtual Campus

If you know of any articles that should be added, need to locate any of the cited articles, or have any comments contact: -rae, at illinois.edu-