This exploration begins with the history of libraries in the United States, examining the ways in which Jefferson’s library, the Library of Congress, and Benjamin Fran[...]

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of a community literacy project on its participants. This year-long study focuses on a public library program title[...]

This qualitative research article explores how youth create multimodal rhetoric during a service-learning course at a local youth media organization. The study takes a[...]

This ethnographic research argues that reciprocity—the attempt to equalize the power dynamics that occur in working relationships—is a way to counteract the widely-use[...]

Why, if service learning has “come a long way,” has it not had the impact on the university or on the community that proponents expected? This article details intervie[...]

This study explains the development, implementation, and preliminary findings of an after-school pilot writing program that drew upon a peer collaborative model and a [...]

This case-study examines the ways citizens took up, and in some ways resisted, city planners’ assumptions about their lived experience of “Portstown.” While it is nece[...]