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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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Weiner, Sharon – Education Libraries, 2011
This paper is a review of reports on information literacy and the workforce. There is a substantial body of literature on information literacy in K-16 educational settings, but there is much less literature on implications for the workplace and job-related lifelong learning. The topical categories of the reports are: the importance of information…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Information Literacy, Barriers, Literature Reviews
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Travis, Tiffini – Education Libraries, 2011
Since the wide-scale adoption of the ACRL "Information Literacy Standards" (2000), there have been numerous students who have graduated from universities that have formal library instruction programs. Currently there has been very little assessment of their post-graduate research skills or what role information literacy plays on workplace…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Program Effectiveness, Research Skills, Information Literacy
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Jacobs, Warren N. – Education Libraries, 2007
This article discusses how an instruction librarian created an online learning community of adult learners in a hybrid, credit-bearing information literacy course. The Blackboard course management system was utilized for weekly course discussion on ethical issues involving the use of information to promote student engagement in the critical…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Blended Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Electronic Learning