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This paper is the full keynote address written for the 2014 ECIL Conference by Michael Eisenberg. Key information literacy milestones in his career that are representative of significant developments in information literacy, as well as education, information and library science, and information technology are presented in the paper.
This paper is the full keynote address written for the 2014 ECIL Conference. The actual delivered keynote speech will be abridged due to time constraints. The writing style is speech-appropriate, i.e., less formal than a scholarly research paper.
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Eisenberg, M.B. (2014). Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Work in Information Literacy. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. ECIL 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_1
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