Conference Session 114

Beyond the United Nations Decade of Literacy: what libraries can do

Literacy and Reading Section with National Libraries

Congress track 3: Users driving access and services.

15 August 2011 16:00 - 18:00 | Room: 208

Introduction: IVANKA STRICEVIC, Chair of the Literacy and Reading Section (University of Zadar, Croatia) and MARTYN WADE, Chair of the National Libraries Section (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland)

• Keynote: Towards digital literacy – what can libraries do?
  JĀNIS KĀRKLIŅŠ, Assistant Director-General Communication and Information, UNESCO, Paris France)
• Mexico Reads: national program for the promotion of reading and the book
  Translations: [Español]
  (Mexico lee: Progrma Nacional de fomento para la lectura y el libro)
  ELSA RAMIREZ (National University of Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico)
• Literacy beyond the curriculum: the strength of libraries - examples from the Netherlands
  Translations: [Français]
  MARIAN KOREN (Netherlands Public Library Association, The Hague, Netherlands)
• Role of public libraries in promoting literacy in Zimbabwe: challenges of sustaining a reading culture
  Translations: [Français]
  COLLENCE.TAKAINGENHAMO CHISITA (Harare Polytechnic, Harare, Zimbabwe)
• Reading and literacy: a way to the social inclusive library
  DIJANA SABOLOVIĆ-KRAJINA, Public Library Fran Galović, Koprivnica, Koprivnica, Croatia)
• Sustaining literacy through libraries
  Translations: [Français]
  WILLIAM EVANS (The Norwegian Association for Adult Learning, Oslo, Norway), SANJANA SHRESTHA (READ Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal) and BASU DHUNGANA (Nepal Community Library Association, Kathmandu, Nepal)
• The role of the library in supporting the emerging literacy of adolescents: a transliteracy approach to summer reading
  CAROL A. GORDON (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA)
• From literacy to inquiry: a holistic approach to literacy development in selected Australian schools
  ROSS J. TODD (Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA)
• Summer reading camps in Northern Ghana: effects of camps and camp activities
  MICHAEL KEVANE (Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA), FRANCESCA LEBARON and NICOLAS RUIZ (Friends of African Village Libraries, San Jose, CA, USA)
• Korean national strategy for library development and reading promotion for children and young adults
  Translations: [Français]
  SOOK HYEUN LEE (National Library for Children and Young Adults, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
• Spearheading health information literacy in the community: the libraries as leaders
  IRENA BOND, CAROLYN FRIEL and MONINA R. LAHOZ (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA, USA)
• Literacy and reading promotion programs in the Dutch Caribbean
  MONIQUE ALBERTS (Philipsburg Jubilee Library, Philipsburg, St Maarten)