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Participants were 237 entering graduate students in library and information science from a mid-southwestern state university in the United States from year 2001 to 2003. Computer competency was estimated by students’ self-report of their prior knowledge of information technology skills in a survey called Computer Skill and Use Assessment. Statistical significance was found between the correlation of computer competency and students’ perception of enjoyment level (p= .011) and difficulty level (p= .001) .  \nIntroduction  \nDistance education has become an integral component of services from libraries, including academic libraries that serve college of education. In recent years, library and information science fields have been exploring innovative ways of teaching and learning in digital era. For example, since the 1990s, distance learning in library and information science education has developed quickly in the United States. Distance education via the World Wide Web, often combined with on-site meeting requirements, has been a trend in library and information science fields (Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1999, 7) . The 2003 Association for Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report shows forty-six out of fiftysix ALA-accredited library schools reported 1,155 courses offered as distance education, in comparison to 1,008 courses in 2001, 489 courses in 2000, and 408 courses in 1999 (Association for Library and Information Science Education, 2003) .  \nWhile LIS practitioners and researchers are offering instruction in different formats to provide  \nstudents with more flexibility, they realize the potential challenge of learning from a distance. For example, the instructor needs sufficient instructional and technical support in a sametime/different-place learning environment (Besser, 1996, 819) . Many of the library educators choose different-time/different-place models to deliver courses over the Internet to reduce cost and eliminate technical challenges by twoway video-conferencing (lighting, sound, and wiring of classrooms, et al) .  \nIn asynchronous models, students can control the pace of instruction but students’ individual intellectual and technical background will impact learning effectiveness. An onsite environment makes it possible for instructors to adjust teaching strategies according to student feedback via eye-contact. Learners can think, watch, observe, and participate while communicating with the instructor and classmates. In web-based learning environments, students without adequate technological background may spend more time struggling with technology than working on course content. Computer competency, or information technology literacy, may influence students’ satisfaction with their performance  \nEducation Libraries Volume 27, No. 2 Winter 2004 5  \nwithin an individual course and with their general experience of web-based learning in general. Thus, chances of dropping out may increase for those students dissatisfied with their distance learning experience (Sherry, Fulford, & Zhang, 1998, 4) .  \nIdentifying factors impacting distance learning is more valuable to education libraries because their students will be next generation of educators, who would explore pedagogical innovations at the rest of their life. The current study looked particularly at students at a library and information science program. Many of them were school librarians. 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