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1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Langner, William R.
Inclusive Dates:
1935-1996
Abstract:
William Langner worked for the Department of Education's Division of Adult Education and Literacy for many years. He was active in raising awareness of education for the disabled (Langner himself was a paraplegic from the age of 18 due to a car accident). Collection includes correspondence (both personal and professional), writings, memorabilia, and large amounts of printed material (papers, reports, handbooks, manuals, etc).concerning adult education.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Books.
Brochures.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Minutes (administrative records)
Newsletters.
Periodicals.
Photographs.
Postcards.
Proceedings.
Reports.
Videocassettes.
Subject:
Educators.
Adult education
Adult education -- United States.
Educators -- United States.
Elementary education of adults.
People with disabilities -- Education -- United States.
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Special education.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Laubach, Frank Charles, 1884-1970.
Inclusive Dates:
1896-1974
Abstract:
Personal papers of the missionary, adult educator, and literacy pioneer; also contains organizational records of Laubach Literacy, Inc. Collection includes correspondence, administrative papers, financial papers, U.S. and international projects, writings, photographs, and miscellanea.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Bank statements.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Essays.
Financial records.
Manuscripts for publication.
Maps (documents)
Motion pictures (visual works)
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Poems.
Progress reports.
Proposals.
Readers.
Reports.
Minutes (administrative records)
Textbooks.
Subject:
Adult education teachers.
Adult education
Religion and philosophy
Adult education -- United States.
Adult education teachers -- Training of.
Clergy -- United States.
Clergy as authors.
Educators -- United States.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Evening and continuation schools -- United States.
Literacy.
Literacy -- Africa.
Literacy -- Asia.
Literacy -- Colombia.
Literacy -- India.
Literacy -- Latin America.
Literacy -- Mexico.
Literacy -- United States.
Missionaries.
New literates, Writing for.
Television in adult education.
Visual literacy.

Creator:
Laubach Literacy International.
Inclusive Dates:
1896-1991
Abstract:
Papers of Laubach Literacy International, founded in 1955 by Dr. Frank C. Laubach to address the world-wide problem of illiteracy. Established as Laubach Literacy Fund, the organization later became Laubach Literacy, Inc., and finally Laubach Literacy International; in 2002 it merged with Literacy Volunteers of America to form ProLiteracy. Material in the collection includes audio tapes, correspondence, diaries, filmstrips, financial records, journals, literacy journalism papers from courses taught at Syracuse University, motion pictures, newsletters, photographs, primers, reports, scrapbooks, slides and video tapes.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Motion pictures (visual works)
Photographs.
Reports.
Audiotapes.
Audiocassettes.
Long-playing records.
Sound recordings.
Videotapes.
Subject:
Adult education teachers.
Adult education
Religion and philosophy
Adult education -- United States.
Adult education teachers -- Training of.
Clergy -- United States.
Clergy as authors.
Educators -- United States.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Evening and continuation schools -- United States.
Literacy.
Literacy -- Africa.
Literacy -- Asia.
Literacy -- Colombia.
Literacy -- India.
Literacy -- Latin America.
Literacy -- Mexico.
Literacy -- United States.
Missionaries.
New literates, Writing for.
Primers.
Readers (Primary)
Readers (Adult)
Readers for new literates.
Visual literacy.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Lewis, Fulton, 1903-1966.
Inclusive Dates:
1920-1968
Abstract:
Papers of the American broadcast and print journalist. Collection includes correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1934-1966); ms. drafts, scripts and research files for radio broadcasts (1937-1966); personal files, which include awards, clippings, itineraries, photographs, scrapbooks (1920-1966); films, sound recordings, and audio tapes used in broadcasts; and material related to his syndicated column. Correspondents include Bernard Baruch, John W. Bricker, Harry Cain, Thomas E. Dewey, Paul G. Hoffman, J. Edgar Hoover, H.L. Hunt, Lee Keedick, Adolphe Menjou, Eddie Rickenbacker, Ralph W. Sockman, John Roy Steelman, Lewis L. Strauss, Herbert Bayard Swope, Stuart Symington, Joseph P. Tumulty, Arthur H. Vandenberg, and Burton K. Wheeler.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Audiotapes.
Awards.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Editorials.
Essays.
Itineraries.
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorandums.
Motion pictures (visual works)
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Press releases.
Radio scripts.
Reports.
Scrapbooks.
Sound recordings.
Speeches (documents)
Television scripts.
Subject:
Journalists.
Radio journalists.
Television journalists.
Journalism
Popular culture
Radio, television, film
Broadcast journalism -- United States.
Journalism.
Journalists -- United States.
Radio broadcasting -- United States.
Radio journalists -- United States.
Television broadcasting -- United States.
Television journalists -- United States.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Leyshon, Hal I.
Inclusive Dates:
1948-1965
Abstract:
American public relations consultant. Collection includes correspondence, press releases, reports, statistics, and other material relating to the American Federation of Musicians and other clients; articles by and about Leyshon, and photographs.
Type of Material:
Bills (legislative records)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Press releases.
Reports.
Subject:
Public relations consultants.
Business and Industry
Public relations consultants -- United States.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Lindsay, Richard Clark.
Inclusive Dates:
1929-1961
Abstract:
American military officer, commander of Allied Air Forces Southern Europe (NATO). Collection includes correspondence (1941-1960); memoranda (1942-1960); photographs; financial material; minutes, reports, and other material pertaining to the Council on Foreign Relations (1954-1957) and the U.S. Air Force (1942-1960); articles; interviews; notebooks (1951-1959); and speeches (1946-1961). Correspondents incude Laurence S. Kuter, Thomas S. Power, George E. Stratemeyer, Hoyt Vandenberg, Albert C. Wedemeyer, and Thomas D. White.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Interviews.
Memorandums.
Minutes (administrative records)
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Reports.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.
Soldiers.
Aeronautics.
Military history
Aeronautics, Military -- United States.
Military history -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.

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.

8.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Liveright, A. A. (Alexander Albert), 1907-1969
Inclusive Dates:
1934-1969
Abstract:
Alexander A. Liveright was a professor of adult education and director of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA) for more than ten years. Correspondence, minutes and reports which highlight Liveright’s professional interests and affiliations. Included are papers generated while professor in the schools of education at Boston University and Syracuse University, as director of The Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, and as founding member and Secretary of the International Congress of University Adult Education. Sagamore Conference papers and those of the New Institutional Forms Project, a research project begun by Liveright to study the development of comprehensive adult education programs, also appear in the collection. International adult education is the focus of records from trips to Australia, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Thailand. Miscellaneous material includes newspaper clippings, War Manpower Commission documents, and material from the Highlander Folk School.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Invoices.
Speeches (documents)
Curricula.
Interviews.
Proposals.
Reports.
Minutes (administrative records)
Subject:
Educators.
Adult education
Adult education.
Continuing education -- United States.
Continuing education -- Study and teaching.
Educators, United States