Milestones: A Happy 50th Birthday to ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
A belated Happy 50th Birthday to the Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) providers of two ERIC database and ERIC thesaurus.
ERIC is a service of the U.S. Department of Education.
It was 50 years ago yesterday (May 15, 2014) when the center opened their doors.
To celebrate their birthday ERIC has posted this history of the retrospective presentation. (49 Slides; PDF)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.