April 22, 1995

PLEASE REPOST (where appropriate)

                RESEARCH FOR COMMUNITIES: UPDATE

Friends and Colleagues,

     This is a brief update on Loka Alert 2-5, "Research for
Communities."  

--Dick Sclove
  The Loka Institute, P.O. Box 355, Amherst, MA 01004, USA
  Tel. (413) 253-2828; E-mail: loka@amherst.edu
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>From Dr. Patrick W. Hamlett:

Because of a flood of interest in Community Research Centers
("Science Shops") elicited by Dick Sclove's recent article in the
_Chronicle of Higher Education_, and to facilitate on-going 
networking, information exchange, and conversations among
interested individuals and groups, a Science Shops Listserv has
been established at North Carolina State University.

To subscribe to the Science Shops Listserv, send the following
message to listserv@ncsu.edu:

     subscribe scishops your name


Postings to the scishops list should be sent to:

     scishops@listserv.ncsu.edu


I hope to see the interest and enthusiasm already expressed
continue on this new list! Please forward this message to
appropriate sites, friends, and colleagues.

--Patrick Hamlett
  Chairman
  Loka Institute Community Research Committee

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Dr. Patrick W. Hamlett                  E-mail: PHAMLETT@NCSU.EDU
Director: Program on Science,            EOS: PWHMDS@EOS.NCSU.EDU
   Technology & Society                   
Division of Multidisciplinary Studies         Phone: 919/515-7999
Box 7107                                        Fax: 919/515-1828
North Carolina State University         Full Internet Address:
Raleigh, NC 27695-7107 USA          HAMLETT@SOCIAL.CHASS.NCSU.EDU
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                     Addendum by Dick Sclove

1. TO THOSE WHO DIDN'T SEE THE ORIGINAL LOKA ALERT 2-5:

     You may retrieve Loka Alert 2-5 by sending an e-mail request
to the Loka Institute (loka@amherst.edu).  Or, if you have World
Wide Web access, visit the Loka Institute's new home page:

     http://www.amherst.edu:80/~loka/

and click on "science shops."


2. TO THOSE WHO REPLIED TO LOKA ALERT 2-5:

     Please let us know (loka@amherst.edu) if we may include your
name, address, and contact information in a directory of people
and organizations interested in promoting community research
centers.  Also, many of you sent in capsule summaries of
community research efforts in which you're already involved; may
we share those publicly?

     Finally, a few of you are obviously super-busy and will
understandably groan at the thought of subscribing to a new
listserve.  I hope that you will subscribe--even if only for a
short while--to contribute to the initial dialogue on how best to
proceed in a collaborative effort to promote a national (or
transnational) network of community research centers.

     Thanks to all!  

     --Dick Sclove

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