Evaluated the impact of training and experience on the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of AmeriCorps child-care volunteers in North Carolina. Found that Corps members completed successful training, but, after nine months of service, showed a decline in the appropriateness of their interactions with children. (JS)

As recruitment budgets continue to tighten and with fewer colleges reporting application increases for their freshmen classes, enrollment managers must continue to explore all potential sources of recruitment talent. Alumni are often an underutilized or sometimes poorly utilized resource in recruitment efforts. Younger alumni, for example, may…

The matching grant aspect of the new Federal appropriation legislation for public broadcasting is a further affirmation of the importance of station volunteer groups. Although these groups are helpful, necessary, and a true embodiment of the meaning of "public" broadcasting, tension occurs between them and station management. Some of the reasons…

Volunteer subjects scored significantly better than randomly selected subjects on most tasks in this study. (MM)

As many as 70 million Americans are functionally or marginally illiterate. Among the consequences: disproportionate numbers of illiterates are unemployed, 50 percent of inmates are illiterate, and illiterate parents are more likely to raise illiterate children. (SK)

Many New York librarians view volunteers as a serious job threat; their unions back them in their opposition to volunteers; and some administrators are afraid to launch volunteer programs during the budget crunch because of their probably adverse effect on staff morale. (Author)

The Junior League has provided many communities with various volunteer services including environmental education. (RC)

This article discusses how volunteers are serving their communities. (RC)

This article discusses the use of senior citizen volunteers at the National Recreation and Park Association office. (RC)

The use of any type of volunteer for essential (professional patron-oriented long term) services limits cumulative staff knowledge and undermines the case for full public support. However, the unemployed librarian can gain invaluable experience in special projects (unessential non-patron oriented in-house short term services) and should be…

This Statistics in Brief examines the patterns and characteristics of individual involvement in community service activities from high school through early adulthood. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), this Brief describes the characteristics of young adults who volunteered, when they volunteered, why they…

The success of any institution depends on the honest involvement of the people it serves. Voluntary action is no threat to the library profession, rather, it is a compliment, a vote of confidence which is enhancing the library field in the public eye and is opening up jobs. (12 references) (Author/NH)

Mothers of school children participate as volunteer health aides in St. Louis schools. (DB)

Describes the innovative educational methods undertaken in Botswana in order to cope with a serious shortage of funds and facilities. (AN)