Library-based literacy programs

A presentation on the literacy work of the IFLA Reading Section. Describes the 3 main elements of the Section’s work, and relates the ‘literacy’ facet firstly to IFLA, and then to a wider professional context. In presenting the latter, the example is used of the Reading Section ‘Guidelines for library-based literacy programs’, with the UK adult literacy initiative ‘Quick Reads’ used as an illustrative case study. Suggestions are made of ways in which library-based literacy programmes can be developed, sustained and evaluated.