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AskERIC and the virtual library: lessons for emerging digital libraries

R. David Lankes (heads the AskERIC Research and Development effort for the US Department of Education. Lankes helped begin the AskERIC project in the fall of 1992 as a doctoral student in Syracuse University′s School of Information Studies, and continues to investigate in the areas of distributed multimedia systems, Internet applications, and the effect of wide area networks in the field of education.)

Internet Research

ISSN: 1066-2243

Article publication date: 1 March 1995

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Abstract

AskERIC was begun as a pilot project by the ERIC system of the US Department of Education in the fall of 1992. Since its inception, the project has grown from a pilot study to one of the major education digital libraries on the Internet. Major issues in creating and maintaining Internet services are explored, particularly the use of user input to drive and shape the service. It is the emphasis on the user and the inclusion of the human intermediary that makes AskERIC a model for other Internet services.

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Lankes, R.D. (1995), "AskERIC and the virtual library: lessons for emerging digital libraries", Internet Research, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/10662249510798956

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