This report contains the proceedings of the International Literacy Day Conference held in Washington, D.C., on September 8, 1978. It contains a program of conference events, an executive summary, a message from the vice president of the United States, and the text of the proceedings. The proceedings include introductory remarks by Edwin Newman; a keynote address by Commissioner of Education Ernest G. Boyer; the presentation of awards to Welthy Honsinger Fisher, founder of Literacy House, India, and to Joan Ganz Cooney, president of the Children's Television Workshop; and remarks made by members of panels on national and international literacy. Some of the ten participants on the panels were Reverend Jesse Jackson, president of Operation PUSH; Mrs. Robert McNamara, chair of Reading is Fundamental; Dorothy Strickland, president of the International Reading Association; and Aklilu Habte, director of the education department, The World Bank. (MKM)