For this report on a two-year Peace Corps project designed to implement educational television (ETV) into Colombia schools, the Peace Corps Volunteers who participated are investigated. The history and experience of these Volunteers in the Peace Corps are sketched first. Next, the consequences for them of serving in a large, integrated, special…

This handbook presents the steps that must be taken to assure an effective and meaningful volunteer program. The handbook is comprised of the following chapters: I. Volunteering--History and Philosophy; II. Areas of Volunteering; III. Board--Purpose and Functions; IV. Organization of Volunteer Service; V. Recruitment and Promotion; VI. Interview…

Describes projects of the Maryland Committee for the Day Care of Children aimed at cutting day care costs: a recycling center for discarded industrial materials that can be put to educational uses, and workshops for teachers and volunteers in preschool and day care programs. (ED)

Describes the Literacy Volunteers of Virginia Institutions program (LVVI). There are LVVI programs at 22 institutions where inmate and community volunteers provide one-to-one basic reading instruction to students and are supervised by teachers from the Department of Correctional Education. (JOW)

A study of volunteerism in an eight-town area of New Hampshire secured responses from 112 of a sample of 312 volunteers in 1978. These volunteers were predominantly male, middle aged, and married. They served either for personal prestige or community service motives. A cumulative savings of $46,000 resulted from their efforts. (SK)

The notion that low-income people don't volunteer is more myth than reality. A study shows that low-income people, especially parents of children in a club, will become volunteers and will stay in that role. (SK)

Older volunteers, in particular, provide a largely untapped reservoir of men and women able and dedicated to library service. (Author)

A description and evaluation of the varying kinds of roles volunteers have developed and (could) play in patients' libraries. It discusses the ways in which others in the library and medical professions perceive volunteers and the mutual misconceptions that inhibit sound and uniform development of these services. (Author)

Findings of this exploratory investigation suggest that undergraduate student volunteers who participate in meaningful training experiences designed to help them understand their preprofessional work roles and responsibilities will become more knowledgeable about the student personnel agency that they serve, will personally benefit from…

The article discusses general and specific attitudes toward voluntary action; personality traits; personal capacities; and social, structural, and contextual factors as they act as motivating influences for participation in voluntary action. (AG)

The present study is an attempt to determine whether or not volunteers for marital research differ from nonvolunteers, and if so, to profile the characteristics of each. In general, it seemed that both volunteering for such research and actually participating were related to a more cautious courtship pattern and to an upper-middle-class…

This second installment in a series on volunteers in libraries looks at the issues from the point of view of the librarian concerned with modern administrative procedures. Some of the groundwork needed for any successful volunteer program is given. (10 references) (Author/NH)

The third article in Library Journal's" current series on the use of volunteers in libraries gets down to the nuts and bolts of the question by providing a look at one library's successful experience with a volunteer program. (5 references) (Author)

A description of a community day care center in Chevy Chase, Md. (RY)