• For Parents-and Teachers: Help your child Learn TO READ!  
• Book Fairs & Literacy Fesitvals 
• 2002-2003 Calendar of Promotional Events for Libraries & Literacy
• America Reads Challenge - calls on Americans to support teachers and help ensure that every child can read well and independently by the end of 3rd grade.
• America Reads 
• Asia-Pacific Literacy Data Base - facts and figures about literacy and an archive of teaching and learning materials used in the region; developed by the Asia/Pacific Cultural Center for UNESCO.
• Between The Lions  - Get Wild about Reading
• Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) - collaborative center dedicated to improving children’s reading achievement through research-based, practical solutions to persistent problems in the learning and teaching of beginning reading.  
• Greenwood Institute - offers courses with an emphasis on dyslexia for literacy teachers in mainstream and specialized schools.
• International Reading Association 
• Literacy Web - Australia
• National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) - Canada
• National Center on Adult Literacy
• National Center for Family Literacy
• National Institute for Literacy  
• NIFL Literacy Fact Sheets
• National Literacy Trust - database and information service. 
• OnLine Reading Tutor - advice for helping students with reading problems.  
• PBS LiteracyLink - provides information about this adult literacy project that combines online interactivity and computer technologies with video.  
• Project L.O.V.E. - seniors volunteer go into schools and help students with reading and other school work.
• Reading is Fundamental 
• Union Tribune Dr. Seuss Race for Literacy- 8k run  

Build Literacy
BuildLiteracy.org is an interactive how-to web site for building and sustaining literacy coalitions.
BuildLiteracy.org is an initiative of the
American Library Association (ALA) Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS).

ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services
Library Outreach to Underserved Populations
www.ala.org/olos/

Literacy Organizations

Resources for Literacy Volunteers
http://www.literacyconnections.com/Organizations.html

Education Planet - Literacy Organizations - Links
http://www.educationplanet.com/search/Literature/Literacy_Organizations/

Google Directory Literacy Links
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Organizations/Education/Literacy/

• American Literacy Council  
• Books for Kids - distributing books to at-risk children served by homeless shelters, pre-schools, tutoring programs.  
• James Flanigan Foundation - raises awareness of children's literacy issues.  
• Laubach Literacy New Brunswick - volunteer organization offering confidential, free literacy training.  
• Literacy Partners of Manitoba  
• Prince Edward Island Literacy Alliance  
• Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) - national organization that mobilizes college students to address  literacy needs of this country.  

Libraries, Schools and BookStores are urged to Join in the Read Across America Campaign

"READING" Quotes resources links:

• www.etni.org.il/quotes/reading.htm
• www.richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion/readingquotes.htm
• www.useful-information.info/quotations/library_quotes.html
• www.annabelle.net/topics/reading.html
• Quotes about Libraries, Books & More Resources

Related pages of interest on LibrarySupportStaff.com

• Library, Education, & Information Technology Online Journals
• Online Books, and Childrens literature sites
• Resource Links for School Library Media Specialists
• Books about Libraries, and/or Librarians
• Teaching Information Literacy

School-Libraries.Org
Online Resources for School Librarians
Information Literacy and Library Skills Resources

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