Explores the effects of identifying ethnicity in the community on the development of libraries, and offers suggestions for designing a questionnaire which will provide a source of information about community needs. (FM)

Information on American poverty and guidelines for action by local church groups are presented in this 1964 document. Briefly reviewed are the nature, extent, causes, and possible solutions to the problems of poverty in an affluent society. Also discussed are ways in which information on poverty may be gathered on a general and a local level. It…

The article describes how a senior high school teacher used an annotated bibliography to stimulate a local history resource project. For journal availability see SO 504 433. (Author/RM)

Reports on research that investigated the magnitude of knowledge gaps under varying levels of neighborhood newspaper publicity and organized group activities in an urban neighborhood. Concludes that high levels of group activity relate to both higher knowledge levels and greater knowledge gaps. (FL)

The outline to conducting a community survey delineates the kinds of information and data about a community of significance to the adult educator--the history and community setting, the people, economic structure, and functional operations. Each topic is subdivided into what to study, sources of information, and implications for adult educators.…

A secondary analysis of data collected by Thomas Patterson during the 1976 presidential campaign was made to test three hypotheses: (1) respondents in a media-rich environment will show higher levels of political information holding than respondents in a media-poor environment, (2) differences in information holding levels between a media-rich…

Many informational resources with emphasis on town and country are listed in this annotated bibliography. Focus is upon understanding life in the small community. Materials are found under topics which include: (1) town and country case studies, (2) community theory, (3) rural sociology, (4) recent protestant town and country materials, (5)…

This book aims to acquaint researchers, primarily in local organizations, with data they can use to describe and better understand rural communities. Chapter 1 describes a few basic data concepts for readers who are not experienced data users. Chapter 2 provides an overview of major data sources that can be used to describe rural communities,…

Senior citizens recall what it was like living in the West during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this Foxfire magazine, written and published by high school students. At the heart of the Foxfire idea is the conviction that students can learn about their community and humanity only outside the classroom. The magazine is an example of…

A literature search was made to assess information sources used by adult educators in deciding on educational content and format and achieving overall balance within agency programs. Attention was given to the involvement of individuals and groups in decision making as well as to certain conceptual factors in the decision making process.…

This directory lists by county 135 collections of local history to be found in libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and private collections in Colorado. The directory includes only collections available in Colorado which contain bibliographic holdings such as books, newspaper files or clippings, letters, manuscripts,…

A do-it-yourself workbook, this guide is designed to help small, rural communities estimate the impact of new industry on the local economy. Included in this workbook are: (1) an introductory section presenting impact analysis rationale, workbook directions, an exemplary analysis, and explanations re: computer analysis; (2) a list of the 45…

As the second in a series of eight reports detailing the findings of a community telephone survey conducted by the Coast Community District in 1980, this three-part report examines study findings related to the extent to which the District's marketing information reaches community residents and the degree to which residents take advantage of…

Humanistic geography is similar to ethnography in that both are concerned with describing actions and events in terms of their meaning to those experiencing them; humanistic geography is particularly concerned with understanding subjective social space: space as perceived by members of particular human groups. A humanistic geography case study,…