Federal Resources and Environmental Programs

Stephens, Denny

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Title

Federal Resources and Environmental Programs

Author(s)

Stephens, Denny

Issue Date

1972

Keyword(s)

Environmental protection --Information services

Abstract

"Americans in a crisis situation have traditionally turned to public schools and their colleges and universities to education to help solve large social problems. Environmental education has been described as a local answer to environmental problems. Community schools, meaning education at all levels is expected to influence or guide most local environmental programs. Strong student concern for the decline of environmental quality has assisted in placing environmental education and reform at the forefront of school and college priorities. Also ""environmental concerns offer an attractive neutral ground for an alliance between generations, the young and the old."" Education as a means for ending the degradation of the environment as it affects individual quality of life has reached into the libraries throughout the nation. A week seldom passes that I do not receive a call from a public or college librarian requesting information about potential sources of funds for resource development in the environmental sciences. Most frequently, the caller has not really developed an idea for a project responsive to an identified community environmental need. Environment is ""in"" (as any capable grantsman knows), therefore success potential, even for a poorly developed idea, will, callers believe, get attention. Too many of these requests are simply pipedreams for acquiring funds for purchase of resources. If there really is a specific local need, the regular selection policy of the institution should already be responding to the need through the local budget."

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (18th : 1972)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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