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I am a lecturer at the Graduate School of Informatics at Strathclyde University and, with a colleague, am working with a group of public libraries in Glasgow who are interested in ideas to improve their homework clubs service. They want to get parents/guardians of children who attend more involved and to persuade parents/guardians of children not attending about the usefulness of homework clubs. Postgraduate students are doing research on the ground but I would like to contextualise their research by experiences of homework clubs in public libraries elsewhere. I have searched the archives of this list on this topic. The following resources have been found useful: The Value and Impact of Homework Clubs in Public Libraries http://www.cie.uce.ac.uk/cirt/projects/past/homework.htm ALA DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Project http://www.ala.org/plpyd/index.html The Library and the Latchkey (ERIC Digest) http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed331512.html Connect for Kids http://www.connectforkids.org/ Alan Poulter Graduate School of Informatics University of Strathclyde mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/people/biography/ap/ tel: 0141 548 3911