Rural community resources centre : a guide for Developing countries

The guide is written in four major sections: Introduction

Part 1: Setting up a Centre: Promoting, Planning, Organising

and Supervising Tasks Part 2: Operating the Centre: the Day-to-Day Tasks Part 3: Extra Information

This Introduction sets out the benefits of a community learning resource centre.

Parts 1 and 2 describe the tasks of setting up a learning resource

centre in the order in which they should be done. Part 3 of the guide gives additional information that can help a community to carry out the tasks easily and quickly.

Each rural community will have its own unique needs and its Own unique economic, cultural and political conditions. Tasks may have to be adapted to meet these needs and conditions. For his reason the guide gives only suggestions and examples to show different ways in which tasks can be done.

Even where the words 'must' and 'should' are used in this guide, the instructions can be changed to meet the local situation.
Those who organise training courses for community leaders and the staff of a centre may wish to obtain the training manual which accompanies this guide. Information about the manual is given on page 27.