This handbook is intended to help Adult Basic Education (ABE) volunteers in recruiting students for ABE programs. General information on the College of the Albemarle and on continuing education programs appears first. A glossary of adult learning terminoloqy and a brief history of ABE follow. The next section discusses four basic recruitment approaches: personal contact, mass media, printed publicity, and interagency cooperation. The recruitment process--preparation, execution, and "the close"--is outlined. Other contents of the handbook include a general analysis of the volunteer's role, operational procedures for volunteers, rights and responsibilities of volunteers, and facts on illiteracy problems (nationally and in North Carolina). (YLB)