Abstract
This study examines the variety of instructional practices employed in distance learning librarianship from the end of the Twentieth Century through the early beginnings of the Twenty-First Century. The authors provide a thorough review of the literature on distance learning library instruction, and the study highlights the instructional services provided at two academic institutions with distinctly different clienteles and missions—one a large American university and the other a large Caribbean university.

Dr. Dew is Coordinator of Library Services for Distance Education at the University of Iowa. He has over 25 years of professional experience in a variety of roles as an academic instruction and reference librarian. He is the author of several articles and book chapters in the field of library and information science and also the author of one book and one journal article in the field of American History. Presently he is editor of the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning.

Evadne has been a Distance Librarian since 1997 and has been employed at the University of the West Indies since 1991.

The University of Iowa has 28,700 on-campus and 5,000 off-campus students. The University of the West Indies has 11,967 students.