As California's youth culture yields to gray power, school administrators will be challenged to provide youth programs in an atmosphere of growing hostility and increased demands for services to the elderly. This article provides a sample action plan and issues brief to help educators involve older adults in school-based programs. (MLH)

This book presents 22 personal narratives in which library directors, program administrators, teachers, tutors, librarians, and adult learners explain firsthand how literacy programs at libraries across the United States have changed people's lives. The following narratives are included: "Gloria's Story: 'She Wanted Me to Be Somebody'";…