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Download full textWinsor, Charlotte B.; Burrows, Lodema – 1967
This is a study of four projects in New York City which were established with federal grants to offer library service to the disadvantaged in the area. The four programs studied are the Preschool Project of the Brooklyn Public Library, the Community Coordinator Project of the Brooklyn Public Library, the North Manhattan Project of the New York…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Winsor, Charlotte B.; Burrows, Lodema – 1967
This document contains observations by library staff and interviews with members of the communities served about the Brooklyn Public Library preschool Project and the Queens Borough Public Library Operation Head Start. These two projects offer storybook and picture-book programs for preschool disadvantaged children and programs for their parents.…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Winsor, Charlotte B.; Burrows, Lodema – 1967
This document contains observations of library staff and interviews with community members about the Brooklyn Public Library Community Coordinator Project and the New York Public Library North Manhattan Project. The Community Coordinator Project employs four professional librarians to take an active part in community institutions and organizations…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
New York State Library, Albany. – 1964
An invitational conference was held to bring together library system staff members immediately concerned with projects financed under the Library Services and Construction Act, representatives from the New York State Education Department, and leaders in related agencies for discussion of: (1) identified needs and projects designed to meet these…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Disadvantaged
New York State Library, Albany. – 1966
Attended by representatives from the New York State Education Department, the Library Extension Division, library systems in New York State, and other relevant agencies, this conference was held to gain better understanding of the various antipoverty programs and to encourage cooperative planning and better use of available resources, with…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Action, Conference Reports, Cooperative Programs
National Book Committee, Inc., New York, NY. – 1967
THE SPECIAL, INNOVATIVE SERVICES EXTENDED BY PUBLIC LIBRARIES TO POVERTY-STRICKEN NEIGHBORHOODS ARE ANALYZED IN THIS STUDY, BASED ON FIELD INVESTIGATIONS BY SURVEYORS FROM THE LIBRARY FIELD AS WELL AS AN EXAMINATION OF PROJECT PROPOSALS, REPORTS OF RESEARCH, AND LITERATURE ON THE SUBJECT. THE UNDERLYING PHILOSOPHY AND APPROACHES BEHIND…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Community Services, Disadvantaged, Federal Aid
Drennan, Henry T., Ed. – Library Journal, 1964
This group of articles examines various library programs and services for the disadvantaged. Among the activities which the articles describe are--(1) library programs in metropolitan areas which can reach and motivate the poor in the slums, (2) Federal programs which support library services, (3) ways in which libraries can reach senior citizens,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Coordination, Coordinators, Disadvantaged
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
