Conference Session 108
Libraries for literacy: linking generations, empowering communities
Literacy and Reading
Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.
13 August 2012 16:00 - 18:00 | Room: Session Room 4
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Lifelong reading
Keynote speaker: BARBRO WIGELL-RYYNÄNEN (Library Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture, Helsinki, Finland) -
The National Year of Reading: a case study of librarians as key partners in empowering communities and building a nation of readers
CAROLYNN RANKIN (Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom) -
Promoting inter-generational literacy: the case of Gayaza Family Learning Resource Centre (GFLRC) programme in Central Uganda where mothers read and write with their children
NAPAGI AUGUSTINE TIMOTHY (Gayaza Family Learning Resource Centre, Kampala, Uganda) -
Educating librarians for literacy and building community
WALLACE KOEHLER (Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA) -
Libraries promoting intergenerational dialogue - discussion
IVANKA STRICEVIC (Croatia)
Last update: 19 June 2012