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Creator:
Bergthold, Lucille.
Inclusive Dates:
1961-1976
Abstract:
Collection of material relating to the organization California Literacy and to Frank Laubach of Laubach Literacy.
Type of Material:
Brochures.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Newsletters.
Primers (books)
Reminiscences.
Subject:
Adult education
Adult education -- United States.
Literacy -- California.
Literacy -- India.
Literacy -- Study and teaching.
Marathi language.
Missionaries -- India.

5.

Collection Title:
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.

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:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1941-1945
Abstract:
Army manuals, readers, tests, etc., with a few items of memorabilia
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Examinations (documents)
Photographs.
Readers.
Songbooks.
Textbooks.
Subject:
Adult education
African Americans
Military history
Adult education -- Study and teaching.
Adult education -- United States.
Adult education and state.
Adult education teachers.
African Americans -- Education.
Literacy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Literacy -- United States.
Reading (Adult education) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Reading (Adult education) -- United States.
Soldiers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Soldiers -- Education, Non-military -- United States.

8.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Sheats, Paul H., 1907-
Inclusive Dates:
1925-1975
Abstract:
Files of the American educator (1907-1984). Personal files include oral history, correspondence from and about Theodor Wilhelm, memorabilia, photographs, material on Nazi education, student papers, speeches, selected writings, some audio-visual material, etc. There are organizational records for several California education organizations as well as a number of key national adult education organizations including the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A., Association of University Evening Colleges, Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, National University Extension Association, UNESCO, and University Council on Education for Public Responsibility. There are also more than 40 subject and country files and information on meetings and conferences, and two audiorecordings.
Type of Material:
Abstracts (summaries)
Annual reports.
Sound recordings.
Awards.
Bibliographies.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Memorabilia.
Memorandums.
Minutes (administrative records)
Newsletters.
Notes (documents)
Oral histories (document genres)
Pamphlets.
Press releases.
Proceedings.
Reports.
Slides (photographs)
Speeches (documents)
School yearbooks.
Subject:
Educators.
Adult education
Adult education -- Study and teaching.
Adult education -- Africa.
Adult education -- Australia.
Adult education -- Canada.
Adult education -- Europe.
Adult education -- Great Britain.
Adult education -- India.
Adult education -- Methodology.
Adult education -- New Zealand.
Adult education -- Research.
Adult education -- United States.
Adult education teachers -- Training of.
Older people -- United States.
Apartheid -- South Africa.
Basic education.
Community development -- United States.
Community education -- United States.
Education -- 1945-1964.
Education -- 1965-
Educators -- United States.
Evening and continuation schools -- United States.
Evening and continuation schools -- California.
Literacy.
Mass media in education.
National socialism and education.
University extension -- United States.
Vocational education -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pamphlets.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Education and the war.