Using a Homeless Shelter as a Library Education Learning Laboratory.

Focuses on a study which explored the service-learning activity performed by the University of Buffalo library and information science students as they helped a homeless shelter set up a library for use by the clients and social workers. Definition of service-learning; Description of a service-learning project in a Library and Information Studies graduate course; Concerns and challenges to teaching by service-learning method. INSET: The Love Canal Archival Project.