EAST ST. LOUIS ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT

ESLARP Newsletter - October 1999

To read this newsletter as a web page visit
  ../newsletter/9910.htm

Contents:

* OUTREACH WEEKEND, SEPT 17-18, 1999
* ESLARP FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS
* COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE EGRETS WEBSITE
* EAST ST. LOUIS NEWS FROM THE WEB
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OUTREACH WEEKEND, SEPT 17-18, 1999

Projects included:
 - Uncovering the Historic Cemetery in Brooklyn, Illinois 
 - Washington Park - Police and Fire Station, Senior Citizen's Building, Welcome sign
 - Bride of Christ Church, Alta Sita  
 - Adventures in Motivation 
 - Emerson Park 
 - Archival research at Don Johnson's CDCC

Read about the projects at:

   ../outreach/9909/
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ESLARP FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS

In the last few months, the East St. Louis Action Researc Project has been
featured in a number of community development and academic publications.

The 1999 report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
entitled "Building Higher Education-Community Development Corporation
Partnerships" features ESLARP-NTAC on page 40.
(http://www.huduser.org:80/publications/commdevl/higher.html)

The Summer 1999 edition of the Association of American Colleges and
Universities Liberal Education features ESLARP on page 20.  This piece,
written by Prof. Kenneth Reardon, traces the entire history of ESLARP since
1990, discusses the highs and lows of sustaining a community-university
partnership and offers some suggestions for the future of the project.
(http://www.aacu-edu.org/Publications/lecurrent.html)

The recently published book, Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods (Editors: W. 
Dennis Keating and Norman Krumholz), features East St. Louis in Chapter 8 
"East St. Louis, Illinois: Promoting Community Development Through 
Empowerment Planning" written by Kenneth Reardon.
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COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE EGRETS WEBSITE

This paper evaluates the costs and benefits of a project like 
EGRETS (East St. Louis Geographic Retrieval System). It may be helpful 
to others who are interested in starting a similar internet-based GIS
project. Conclusions state that EGRETS creates huge benefits to professionals
and laypersons in a community.

   http://www.imlab.uiuc.edu/ywkim/lis380/cb-egrets.htm
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EAST ST. LOUIS NEWS FROM THE WEB

Additional news items have been added to the website. Headlines include: 

-In 1960, Look magazine called East St. Louis the 'all-American city.' 
 Now it's known as 'America's Soweto.' (globeandmail.com) 
-Jackie Joyner-Kersee Boys and Girls Club Set to Open	(SWI-NEWS)

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