Abstract
Digital library services have become integral components of 21st Century educational institutions. Librarians have been quick to adopt new technologies to serve their new remotely located patrons. This eagerness to adopt new technology, along with a willingness to adapt to new working environments and a continuing emphasis on the end users of our services have enabled success with regards to serving the distance education patron. This paper will review and discuss the evolution of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University’s (ERAU) Extended Campus Library Services (ECLS), and how a conscious effort to focus on the end users of Embry- Riddle’s ECLS has helped Embry-Riddle manage and respond to the explosive growth of its distance learning population over the last 30 years.

Edward is Extended Campus Services Library at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He has specialized in the coordinating, planning and delivering of services to remotely located students for over five years.

Kathleen is Associate Director for Reference/Extended Campus Library Services. As a librarian with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for 30 years, she has had the opportunity to work with on-campus students, as well as off-campus students. She has been involved with supporting off-site students throughout her career at Embry Riddle and has had full-time responsibility for the last eight years.

Lynn is reference librarian at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. She has been an academic reference librarian for 25 years and has been supplying reference services to undergraduate and graduate distance learning students for the last nine years.

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University has 8,800 Extended Campus/Distance Learning students with 4,500 at the Daytona
Beach Campus.