Creator:
Literacy Volunteers of America.
Inclusive Dates:
1965- 1990
Abstract:
Papers of the non-profit education and literacy organization founded in 1962 by Ruth J. Colvin in Syracuse, New York. Material in the collection includes audio tapes and cassettes, correspondence, motion pictures, newsletters, primers, readers, reports, slides and video tapes. Areas of special interest are English as a second language, work within correctional facilities, the production of readers and workbooks, involvement in the National Right to Read Effort, and the development of slide/tape and later video tutor training programs.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Audiocassettes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Motion pictures (visual works)
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Reports.
Slides (photographs)
Sound recordings.
U-matic.
Videocassettes.
Subject:
Adult education
Adult education -- United States.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Libraries and new literates.
Literacy -- Australia.
Literacy -- United States.
Libraries and illiterate persons.
Readers (Primary)
Readers (Adult)
Tutors and tutoring.
Creator:
Colvin, Ruth J.
Inclusive Dates:
1980- 2010
Abstract:
American literacy advocate and author. Collection includes videotapes, clippings, slides, and presentations and publications by Colvin.
Type of Material:
Videotapes.
Audiotapes.
Audiocassettes.
Compact discs.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Textbooks.
Subject:
Teachers.
Adult education
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
Literacy -- Developing countries.
Literacy -- United States.
New literates, Writing for.