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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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Kunda, Sue; Anderson-Wilk, Mark – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
Our institutions of record are facing a new digital knowledge management challenge: stakeholder communities are now expecting customized Web interfaces to institutional knowledge repositories, online environments where community members can contribute content and see themselves represented, as well as access archived resources. Digital curation…
Descriptors: Library Role, Archives, Knowledge Management, Preservation
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Seaman, Scott – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
Using salary data from the "ARL Annual Salary Survey," this paper analyzes 2003-2004 salary data for evidence of salary compression. It reviews the concept of salary compression to explain its relationship to market salary rates and salary dispersion within an organization. The analysis utilizes comparison ratios between salaries and years of…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Salaries, Personnel Policy, Employment Practices
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Bradley; Rachael – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
This article presents the results of a survey addressing methods of securing digital content and ensuring the content's authenticity and integrity, as well as the perceived importance of authenticity and integrity. The survey was sent to 40 digital repositories in the United States and Canada between June 30 and July 19, 2003. Twenty-two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Background, Electronic Libraries, Library Automation
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Cameron, Brian D. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
Librarians rely on the Institute for Scientific Information's journal impact factor as a tool for selecting periodicals, primarily in scientific disciplines. A current trend is to use this data as a means for evaluating the performance of departments, institutions, and even researchers in academic institutions--a process that is now being tied to…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Bibliometrics, Item Analysis, Construct Validity
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Gold, Helene E. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
Adult learners have unique developmental and social characteristics as compared to their traditional counterparts in higher education. Library instruction models used for traditional learners are not always effective when teaching adults. The author examines adult learner characteristics and adult learning theory and also uses personal…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Social Characteristics, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
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Bennett, Terrence B.; Nicholson, Shawn W. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2004
The use of numeric data has historical significance in the research of many academic disciplines, but today it is burgeoning. Responses from academic business librarians to a 33-item questionnaire are the basis for this study that investigates the interactions between academic business libraries and other local units supplying numeric data…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Business Communication, Technology Transfer, Research and Development Centers