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Focuses on the library services provided by the Florida Distance Learning Reference and Referral Center, Central Michigan University and Springfield College in Massachusetts for distance learners. Service strategies; Staffing; Funding; Library instruction; Challenges and successes.

This article explores the meaning of 'post-racial society' through an examination of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ burnings in the immediate aftermath of the election of Barack H. Obama as the nation's first Black president. By tracing the continuity of racial violence against Blacks, in particular, the founder of Macedonia Church, this article contends that a post-racial society does not exist and that rather race hatred continues to travel along a fault line that often erupts with Black success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on a computerized data bank for urban planning in Springfield, Massachusetts. Role of the data bank as an information service bureau; Development of the real estate file.

Examines the integration of community service learning in the curriculum as an instructional strategy at a middle school in Springfield, Massachusetts. Format of the program; Role of the principal as instructional leader; Process involved in using community service learning as an in-class experience and as an extracurricular; Effect of the service learning on teachers and students.

Gives an account of the reformation of Springfield, Massachusetts to establish its classification as a city or a town. Brief description of the community; Postwar developments in the inner city; Role of the Irish Catholics and the politics of efficiency; Revitalization of the civic elite; Breakdown of the system.