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Download full textUNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2016
Used strategically, libraries have the potential to play a key role in promoting national literacy efforts, as they are trusted by people in the communities they serve and are in a good position to provide a wide variety of literacy opportunities. Libraries provide literacy resources for children, youth and adults at all proficiency levels,…
Descriptors: Librarians, Literacy Education, Lifelong Learning, Emergent Literacy
Direct linkHorning, Alice – Community Literacy Journal, 2010
Illiteracy is a huge problem, socially, economically and educationally. This study of the history and current practices of American public libraries examines their role in supporting the development of human literate abilities and in helping all Americans to be critically literate in order to participate fully and successfully in our society. This…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Library Role, Public Libraries, Adult Literacy
Peer reviewedHemp, Susan J.; Montgomery, Jack G., Ed. – Against the Grain, 1996
The population of state and federal prisons quadrupled between 1971 and 1991, increasing demand for library resources. Outlines the history of prison libraries (1700s-1990s); discusses prison libraries and librarians, law collections, reference services, literacy programs, and funding; and provides a bibliography of prison librarianship covering…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Bibliographies, Law Libraries, Librarians
Ellison, Arthur – 1989
In its third year of funding, Project VITAL (Volunteers In Training Act and Learn) was designed to provide literacy training to 500 librarians, coordinators, and volunteers working in literacy programs. Through the techniques of improvisational theater, structured scenarios were enacted dealing with illiteracy, women's concerns of domestic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Battered Women, Disabilities
Pelzman, Frankie – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1989
Discusses the findings of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science hearing on the status and needs of native Americans' libraries, based on visits to four pueblo libraries. Library services are described, financial support and needs are discussed, and the role of the library in native American cultures is examined. (CLB)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Federal Aid
Peer reviewedHammond, Carol; And Others – Reference Librarian, 1992
Six articles discuss librarians as mediators in special circumstances. Highlights include the reference librarian and the information paraprofessional; effective reference mediation for nontraditional public library users, including mentally impaired patrons and illiterate adults; the academic librarian's role in the education process; and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Adult Literacy, Higher Education, Illiteracy
