The site, called SERVEnet, is sponsored by Youth Service America, a national umbrella organization for the service movement, including more than 7,000 affiliated organizations around the country.
SERVEnet aims at engaging all Americans in volunteer service, with a special focus on young adults. The site is scheduled to provide information about service opportunities in local areas across the nation and the ability to interact with other individuals and organizations interested in volunteering.
YSA officials said the site will provide collaborative information sharing, problem solving and resource development for more than 10,000 grassroots service organizations, 200 Youth Service America affiliates and multiple national non-profit partners including Red Cross, Share Our Strength and the National Association of Service and Conservation Corps.
The SERVEnet site will be located at http://www.SERVEnet.org.
Warner is professor emeritus and dean emeritus of the School of Information, former director of the Bentley Historical Library and former archivist of the United States. He was also interim director of the University Library and a professor of history.
The symposium honors Warner and his wife, Jane Warner, on his retirement from the School of Information.
Titled "Archival Pioneers: A Retrospective and Prospective Look," the symposium is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Wednesday at the Gerald Ford Library on North Campus. The event is open to the public, but seating will be limited. A reception is scheduled to follow the symposium.
Students from all over the country will spend more than two weeks in Israel from Dec. 25-Jan. 10 as part of the conference.
While the trip costs $1,150 for all expenses, including airfare, subsidies are available.
For more information on the program, call 1-800-27-ISRAEL, (212) 339-6940.
Training for the program will be provided in early January, and volunteers will be needed from January through April 1997. Call 712-3625 for more information.
- Compiled from staff reports.