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Humes, Barbara; Lyons, Carol Cameron – 1994
This document examines the types of projects funded by the Library Literacy Program in fiscal year 1993. The variety of literacy activities supported under the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Title VI reflects the diversity of literacy needs in states and communities across the United States. Many factors influence a library's choice…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Humes, Barbara; Lyons, Carol Cameron – 1993
This document examines the types of projects funded by the Library Literacy Program in fiscal year 1992. The variety of literacy activities supported under the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Title VI reflect the diversity of literacy needs in states and communities across the nation. Many factors influence a library's choice of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Smith, Valinda C. – 1993
This final performance report for the Elizabeth Jones Library literacy project begins with a section that provides quantitative data. The next section compares actual accomplishments to the following project goals and related objectives for fiscal year 1992: (1) to provide a versatile workplace literacy program useful to any business in the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Expenditures
Colhapp, Barbara; Miller, Lana – 1994
The Carver County Library System (Chaska, Minnesota) conducted a project to demonstrate adult educational teamwork between libraries and literacy agents in the Carver-Scott two county area. The project, "National Issues Forums (NIF) for the New Reader," extended educational opportunities that encouraged new adult readers and the public…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Ward, Betty Arnett; Brice, Edward Warner – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
This bibliography should be useful to educators, researchers, teachers, personnel managers and placement officers, industrial training supervisors, vocational and rehabilitation counselors, and volunteers engaged in full- or part-time work with the backward and illiterate adult. It should serve librarians in the development of professional and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Adult Literacy