Add to ORKGThe ability to function effectively in today's information society requires a high degree of literacy and a complexity of skills which is leaving some people behind. Yet in Australia one in five adults do not possess sufficient literacy skills to participate in everyday life. This causes problems for living, working and for survival. The resources, networks and advocacy potential of public libraries make them natural allies of the literacy movement. The Australian Library and Information Association in its 'Statement on libraries and literacy' not only endorses the role of public libraries in supporting literacy but sees it as a core function. It is now an opportune time to re examine that role and develop strategies for its future. The Uni...
Literacy and library are like Siamese twins that cannot be separated. Society draw literacy skills f...
PURPOSE : Libraries of all types have often been called on to take on challenges ranging from inform...
Purpose. To convey the initial findings of Biblio.for.mEDA, an EU project exploring lifelong learnin...
The ability to function effectively in today's information society requires a high degree of literac...
IT IS NOT SURPRISING that adult literacy has emerged and reemerged cyclically as an element in publi...
Living Libraries Australia is a national strategy for connecting and strengthening local communities...
Libraries from its inception as been a power house of knwowledge, without it, no living organism c...
According to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA, 1999), “th...
The public library has historically been entrusted with the design and delivery of services and prog...
From their earliest beginnings, public libraries have been associated with education. Supporting lea...
The origin of Public libraries is grounded in equity and the advancement or enrichment of the indivi...
This paper reports on the results of an empirical study of public librarians’ conception of how publ...
Early language and literacy skills develop rapidly during the first three years of children’s lives....
When every community has its professionally-administered, free public library, when the resources of...
This paper is based on the assumption that libraries have a pivotal role to play in nation building,...
Literacy and library are like Siamese twins that cannot be separated. Society draw literacy skills f...
PURPOSE : Libraries of all types have often been called on to take on challenges ranging from inform...
Purpose. To convey the initial findings of Biblio.for.mEDA, an EU project exploring lifelong learnin...
The ability to function effectively in today's information society requires a high degree of literac...
IT IS NOT SURPRISING that adult literacy has emerged and reemerged cyclically as an element in publi...
Living Libraries Australia is a national strategy for connecting and strengthening local communities...
Libraries from its inception as been a power house of knwowledge, without it, no living organism c...
According to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA, 1999), “th...
The public library has historically been entrusted with the design and delivery of services and prog...
From their earliest beginnings, public libraries have been associated with education. Supporting lea...
The origin of Public libraries is grounded in equity and the advancement or enrichment of the indivi...
This paper reports on the results of an empirical study of public librarians’ conception of how publ...
Early language and literacy skills develop rapidly during the first three years of children’s lives....
When every community has its professionally-administered, free public library, when the resources of...
This paper is based on the assumption that libraries have a pivotal role to play in nation building,...
Literacy and library are like Siamese twins that cannot be separated. Society draw literacy skills f...
PURPOSE : Libraries of all types have often been called on to take on challenges ranging from inform...
Purpose. To convey the initial findings of Biblio.for.mEDA, an EU project exploring lifelong learnin...