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.
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.