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12 Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Q. 3 (1983)

handle is hein.journals/npvolsq12 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S COMMENTS The articles presented in this issue form a splendid panoply of the best in voluntary action research. Writing from a variety of disciplines and method- ologies, our authors this issue enlighten a range of important questions. And they do it with style, grace, and a full measure of the scholar's inventiveness. Jack C. Ross returns to these pages for the sixth time with his paper on Differentiation of Gilds and Fraternities in Medieval Europe. Only David Horton Smith has published more often in these pages then Prof. Ross, who brings his unique multi-disciplinary approach to the present study. The next two papers deal with the thorny issue of why, indeed, people do volunteer. Benjamin Gidron, whose previous work on the topic is standard in the literature, reviews some new data regarding Sources and Job Satisfaction Among Service Volunteers. His work is followed by the detailed review of studies of one particular volunteer motivation, altruism, in the paper Personality Characteristics of Community Mental Health Volunteers, by Natalie J. Allen and J. Philippe Rushton. The lone U.S. - based researcher to contribute to this issue, Fred Fisher, concludes the issue with a paper that I feel sure will be passed hand-to-hand along many networks. Resource Exchange Networking: Metaphorical Inventions in Response to Differentiated Human Needs in a Collectivist-Oriented Society demonstrates the interest of this Journal in research that springs directly from applied interests in voluntarism. It completes the presentation of four gems of voluntary action research in this issue. Readers will also be pleased to learn that two recent special issues of JVAR are now available, each expanded somewhat, in book form. Both books are published by University Press of America, whose address is P.O. Box 19101, Washington, DC 20036. Volume 9 has been transformed into INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON VOLUNTARY ACTION RESEARCH, co-edited by the ever-productive and forementioned Prof. Smith and yours truly, with the collaboration of Dan Bernfeld, Victor Pestoff, and David Zeldin. Special funding from the International Voluntary Action and Voluntary Association Research Organization (IVAR) and Rutgers University facilitated the publication of this volume. Volume 10 (Number 1) now takes the form of VOLUNTEERISM IN THE EIGHTIES: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN VOLUNTARY ACTION, edited by John D. Harman. Special funding from Joint Action in Community Service, Inc., permitted the develop- ment of that volume.

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