Has the Internet affected the ways in which people communicate by minimizing the effects of distance? To examine this question, we study scholarly and interpersonal relationships - communicating in person and by email - in two scholarly networks, one in a large university and one dispersed across North America. Not only are these scholarly networks interesting in their own right, they are harbingers of the turn towards network and virtual organizations. Although the Internet helps scholars to maintain ties over great distances, physical proximity still matters. Those scholars who see each other often or work nearer to each other email each other more often. Frequent contact on the Internet is a compliment for frequent face-to-face contact, not a substitute for it. The more scholarly relations network members have, the more frequently they communicate and the more media they use to communicate. Although email helps scholars without strong ties to stay in contact, it is used most by scholars who are collaborators or friends.