Creator:
National Service Secretariat (U.S.)
Inclusive Dates:
1959- 1991
Abstract:
Papers of the private non-profit organization founded in 1966 which promotes national service and acts as a clearinghouse for information about it. Director: Donald J. Eberly. Collection includes organization records, including correspondence, legislative files, conference and project proposals; and printed material, including books, clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, proceedings, reports, and videocassettes pertaining to community service, military draft, the Peace Corps, service learning, youth employment, and voluntarism.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Books.
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Pamphlets.
Reports.
Videocassettes.
Subject:
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Military service, Voluntary.
National service.
National service -- Law and legislation.
National service -- United States.
Service -- Compulsory non-military -- United States.
Voluntarism.
Volunteer workers in social service -- Training of.
Volunteers.
Youth -- Employment -- United States.
Youth -- Government policy -- United States.
Youth -- Services for -- United States.
Young volunteers in community development -- United States.
Creator:
American Foundation for Continuing Education
Inclusive Dates:
1947- 1965
Abstract:
Administrative files, general correspondence, financial documents, programs and projects (conferences, workshops, seminars), and publications. Individual correspondents include William W. Cowan, Stanley A. Gill, Charles A. Nelson, George W. Overton, William J. Trainor, Harold S. Williams, and Jerome M. Ziegler as well as officials from the Fund for Adult Education (FAE).
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Minutes (administrative records)
Reports.
Subject:
Teachers.
Adult education
Adult education
Adult education.
Art -- Study and teaching.
International relations.
Science -- Study and teaching.
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.