Community development (2e 2002).
Ife, J. (2002). Community development: Community-based alternatives in an age of globalisation (Second edition).. French Forest, NSW: Longman.
ISBN 9780733999017
When I joined the Skills.net team (Adrian & Sandie) in Vicnet at the State Library of Victoria in 1998, we were working toward a number of goals. The Internet and WWW were still relatively new, being in their first decade; modems to acces the Internet were still dial-up; and access could be very expensive outside Australian capital cities. It's hard to believe, but the beginnings of online social media were still at least five years away...
Our goals included: equitably funding community groups to train adults to access the WWW and use email (Skills.net); making sure disadvantaged members of our state received access to training and low-cost access to the web; community building with this new medium; and enabling change in communities.
For someone who'd been used to working in broadcast radio, a medium that had been going for over 80 years, understanding the communities I'd be working with and their needs was a lot to get my head around. So books on building communities, change in communities, and how to grow online communities, were sought out and read when I had the time. Because much of my time from 1998 to 2004 was spent out on the road visiting community groups across the state.
Other reading of related texts
Reference List / In-Text Citation Styles in APA 6th
Heller, K. (1984). Psychology and community change: Challenges of the future. Chicago, Ill.: Dorsey Press
Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, F. P. (1997). Joining together: Group theory and group skills. Boston, Mass: Allyn and Bacon.
Kenny, S. (1994). Developing communities: Community development in Australia. Melbourne, Vic: Nelson.
Kim, A. J. (2000). Community building on the Web. Berkeley, Calif: Peachpit Press.
Chenoweth, L. I., & McAuliffe, D. A. (2005). The road to social work & human service practice: An introductory text. Southbank, Vic: Thomson Learning.
Roseland, M. (1998). Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and Their Governments (Revised and Updated). Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.
Flood, M., & Lawrence, A. (1994). The community action book. Sydney: Council of Social Service of New South Wales (NCOSS).
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www.worldcat.org
Community development (2e 2002).
Unless otherwise noted all books listed were in my personal library at the time of the first blog posting about the book.
Some titles were borrowed from RMIT University libraries during the period 2006-2016, or from Hobsons Bay City Council library.
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