Background Readings

Community Information Systems

Practical Engagement Workshop

Winter 1999

School of Information

597 / 697

John McKnight and John P. Kretzmann , "Building Community from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing A Community's Assets" , 1993, Chicago, ACTA Publications

Frances Moore Lappe and Paul Martin Du Bois, "Me to We: From Devloved Community to Involved Community"

_____, Connecting All Americans for the 21st Century, National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Joan Durrance, "Factors that Influence Reference Success: What Makes Questioners Willing to Return?" 1995, Haworth Press

Georgia Sales, AIRS Position Paper, Alliance of Information and Referral Systems, http://www.airs.org/library/airsposition.htm

I & R National Standards, Alliance of Information and Referral Systems 1991,  United Way of American

Jay Rosen, "Public Journalism: A Case for Public Scholarship", May/June 1995, Change

Harry C Boyte and Nancy N. Kari "Introduction", <B>Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work</B>, 1996, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, pp 1-12