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Public Libraries and Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Youth Development.

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McCook, Kathleen de la Pena; Meyer, Rachel – Public Libraries, 2001

Examines CCIs (Comprehensive Community Initiatives), which can help librarians expand services to young adults who live in poverty; reviews a Wisconsin plan which highlights community-based librarianship; presents a case study of a Florida CCI-based youth development project; and discusses public libraries and CCIs, and library education programs…

Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth

ARC; Alaska's Resources Challenge. An Attack on Poverty through Knowledge; A Proposal to Demonstrate the Effectiveness of Community Information Aides.

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Fairbanks North Star Borough Library, AK. – 1971

To bring intensive information input to Alaskans within poverty groups, an interagency activity is proposed that would employ 12 VISTA volunteers as community information aides with the Fairbanks North Star Borough Library serving as the center for the assembly and generation of information and the dissemination of information through multimedia…

Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Information Services, Community Resources, Community Services