Useful Links
International organisations promoting reading and literacy
National organisations promoting reading and literacy
- The Center for the Book, Library of Congress, US and South Africa, National Library of South Africa
- National Literacy Trust, UK
Reading and Literacy Surveys
- Progress in International Reading Study (PIRLS) 2011
- Reading at Risk: a Survey of Literary Reading in America
- OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
- Literacy for Life – Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2006 – UNESCO
Literacy Prizes and Awards
Reading Promotion and Literacy projects, programmes and portals
- "Selection of Effective Adult Literacy and Numeracy programmes", UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning
- Wikireadia
- Libraries, Literacy and Development – links to library and literacy projects in developing countries, especially Africa
- The Partnership for Reading: Bringing Scientific Evidence to Learning (US)
- Leer en familia – Un programa de Fundalectura, Colombia
- IRA International Outreach – lots of information on international literacy
- IRA World Congress on Reading
- EU Read – Task Force for Reading and Reading Promotion
- Remote Access: Distant Libraries of the World
- Malaysia: Report of the reading month carnival
- United Nations Literacy Decade 20o3-2012
- National book festival, US
- Plan Iberamericano de lectura
- enCompass – the Global Book Club – the online worldwide reading group
For other publications and papers on reading promotion and literacy, see our Other Publications webpage.