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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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The Role of the Linked Systems Project in Cooperation and Resource Sharing among Libraries.
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Avram, Henriette D.; Wiggins, Beacher – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1987
Describes the background of the Linked Systems Project, which is designed to link existing bibliographic utilities into a national system of machine-readable bibliographic data and discusses directions being taken by the library community and why the OSI architecture was selected as the system protocol. (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Information Retrieval
Libraries and Computing Centers: Issues of Mutual Concern.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Dougherty, Richard M.; And Others – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1987
Describes complementary characteristics of computing centers and libraries that could be combined to form the core of information support centers and discusses the possible impact on library processes and services. The use of telecommunications networks to reduce costs and increase efficiency in academic libraries is also examined. (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Costs, Indexing