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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Kelly, Myla Stokes; Siddons, Jeff; Jenkins, Lawrence – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2002
Asserts that ever-increasing Internet access is rendering the functions of reference librarians obsolete. Presents the points of view of several two-year-college librarians, who insist that libraries will always require experienced reference librarians to act as organizers and guides to information seekers. Also discusses librarians' changing…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Community Colleges, Educational Technology, Librarians
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Jenkins, Lawrence – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2001
Offers suggestions to librarians for enhancing delivery of bibliographic instruction sessions. Includes topics such as "attitude matters more than content,""you may need a coffee bar for librarians,""rigidity is only good for dams,""learning travels up the fingertips," and "they want it convenient." (NB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographies, College Libraries, Community Colleges
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Jenkins, Lawrence – Community & Junior College Libraries, 1999
Examines how technology has changed the library systems since the 1970s and 1980s. Asserts that information retrieval has gained a speed and immediacy that it did not have a decade ago, and that library users have expectations of convenience when using electronic information sources, which has caused reference librarians to rethink traditional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education, Information Retrieval