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1971: Libraries and neighborhood information centers

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 17, 1971); Edited by Carol L Cronus and Linda Crowe

The public library in the past few years has been looking for innovative approaches to inner-city service. Traditional library service is no longer adequate for serving the urban people. When librarians finally realized this they began searching for new approaches and ideas. Neighborhood information centers, envisioned as expanded reference services, are now beginning or under consideration in several urban libraries. With the foregoing thoughts in mind, a conference on library -based neighborhood information centers was considered. It seemed both logical and expedient to have a forum where librarians could explore the concept and ramifications of this service before libraries jumped wholesale into its establishment.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• Rationale For A Conference - Carol L. Kronus And Linda Crowe
• Information And Referral Services: A Short History And Some Recommendations - Nicholas Long
• Overview Of The American City - Norbert Wiley
• Communicating With The Poor - Carl E. Block
• The Steelworkers' South Chicago Community Services Program - William Garvey
• Office Of Economic Opportunity Community Centers-A Critical Analysis - Frank J. Kopecky
• Linking New And Traditional Library Services - Dorothy Sinclair
• Information And Information Service Centers - Henry T. Drennan
• Training Urban Information Specialists - James Welbourne
• Panel On Information Referral Projects In Libraries - Editors' Note
• Project Aurora, Elyria, Ohio - Donald Sager
• Model Cities Community Information Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Robert J. Luce
• An Informal Information Service At The Chicago Public Library's Bezazian Branch - Rosemary Smith Dawood
• Knowledge Is Power: The Detroit Public Library - Robert B. Croneberger, Jr.
• The Research-Action-Teaching Effort At Syracuse University's School Of Library Science - Brenda Dervin
• Bibliography On Libraries And Neighborhood Information Centers - Darlene King
  

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