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)

Study demonstrates that both demographic patterns and self perceptions of former psychiatric patients contribute significantly to the process of volunteering. Although it appears that repeated mailings may overcome some of the demographic biases, there is some indication that they make the existence of personality biases evident. (Author)

Emphasizes that volunteers should supplement and sustain the specialized help needed to realize the Right to Read program, and describes the roles for these volunteers in the program. (MB)

Voluntary service programs in Latin America can serve to complement systematized education, especially for those young people who were forced to leave school at an early age or who never had access to it. (AN)

All concerned citizens are volunteers. Only when they organize together can change be achieved. (MR)