The city librarian sketches the history of the San Francisco public library. (PF)

Among the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration's three thematic program areas is Horizons '76, which will provide opportunities for citizens to participate in planning future achievements and commitments. Various Horizons '76 projects are described, with recommendations and directions for community college participation. (NHM)

Discussed the evolution of a community arts theory and program celebrating the values and life style of Appalchian people. (Author/RK)

This monograph considers 12 questions which could provide guidelines for local administrators and school boards to follow in considering the concept of differentiated staffing: 1) What are your instructional objectives and is the proposed staffing pattern related to these objectives? 2) Will the proposed new patterns provide for continued…

This report describes a demonstration project at Tuskegee Institute of interdisciplinary research that focused on small town development. The goals were the involvement of faculty and students in the practice of research, the stimulation of interdisciplinary thinking and planning, the involvement of faculty and students in the affairs of the…

Deals with incorporating community skills into the field of education using a non-formal educational framework and active participation by young people and families. (NH)

The Princeton Community Tennis Program, which was started and maintained by volunteers, is described. (RC)

It has been said that we live today in a spiritual vacuum where the old values have been discarded and no new values have been discovered to take their place. That is a critical situation that community could help to alleviate. (Author)

More and more communities are rallying together to solve their own problems. These broad-based initiatives are illustrations of the international healthy communities movement. The healthy communities movement emerged from the World Health Organization in 1986 and has quickly spread across the globe. A cornerstone of the movement is the Ottawa…

Literature on the national poverty war is examined, focusing on concepts of community action and resident participation as contributors to adult education of the poor for improved social and civic competence. The literature is found to demonstrate positive, though limited, aspects of participation as civic education. (AG)