1. Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy
2. Support Teen Literature Day planned for April 19
3. Celebrate poetry during National Poetry Month, April 2007
4. Website of the Week - IRS: Frequently Asked Questions
5. Calendar
1. RESULTS FROM THE 2003 NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF ADULT LITERACY
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) just released Literacy in Everyday Life, the most recent publication of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL). This report provides extensive information on the literacy of American adults age 16 and older and changes in their performance since 1992. Furthermore, it examines the relationship between literacy and several demographic variables including education, occupation, and income.
Findings include the following:
* Women have closed the gap with men in Quantitative literacy. They are doing better than men in Document and Prose literacy.
* Younger and older adults have lower literacy than adults in other age groups.
* Median weekly earnings increased with each level of literacy.
* At each higher level of Prose literacy, more adults were employed full time.
* Approximately 51 percent of adults with Below Basic Document literacy and 43 percent with Below Basic Quantitative literacy believed their job opportunities were limited a lot by their lack of computer skills.
* The percentage of parents who never helped their school-age child with homework declined at each higher Prose literacy level.
* Approximately half of US citizens of voting age with Below Basic Prose and Document literacy reported voting in the presidential election of 2000 compared with 84 percent of citizens with Proficient Prose and Document literacy.
Full results are available at:
http://nces.ed.gov/naal/.
To download, view and print the publication as a PDF file, please visit: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007480.
2. SUPPORT TEEN LITERATURE DAY PLANNED FOR APRIL 19
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of ALA, is celebrating its first ever "Support Teen Literature Day" on April 19, as part of ALA's "National Library Week" celebration.
Librarians all across the country are encouraged to participate in "Support Teen Literature Day" by hosting events in their library on that day. The purpose of this new celebration is to raise awareness among the general public that young adult literature is a vibrant, growing genre with much to offer today's teens.
Read more at http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2007/february2007/TeenLiteratureDayApril19.htm.
3. CELEBRATE POETRY DURING NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, APRIL 2007
When words become celebrations...that's poetry. You can help readers connect with poetry during National Poetry Month - April, 2007. Direct them to a rich online resource provided through BadgerLink. Thomson Gale offers students and other readers many ways to explore poets and their work through LitFinder.
Go to http://www.BadgerLink.net and click on Litfinder.
More than a quarter-million full text poems can be searched by subject, author, keyword and more in this database of international scope and historical depth. There is a Kids' Korner with poetry suggestions for young children.
4. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
IRS: Frequently Asked Questions -- http://www.irs.gov/faqs/ -- The Internal Revenue Service web site offers a general questions and answers section. Each year the IRS updates the answers to reflect the latest changes in tax regulations. These questions and answers came from actual taxpayers questions.
5. CALENDAR
April 12, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Fennimore
April 17-20 - Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, Wisconsin Dells
April 18, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Mercer
April 19, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Wausau
April 26, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Sparta
May 2, 2007 - Gates Foundation "Greener Pastures" Rural Sustainability Project workshop, Eau Claire (WAPL preconference)
May 2-4, 2007 - Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries, Eau Claire
May 11, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, La Crosse
May 14, 2007 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
May 22, 2007 - Public library system interlibrary loan staff meeting, Madison
May 23, 2007 - Delivery Services Advisory Committee, Madison
June 21-27, 2007 - American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington DC
July 13, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, location to be announced
September 14, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, location to be announced
October 12, 2007 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
October 16-19, 2007 - Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference, Green Bay
November 9, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, location to be announced
For more details about these and other meetings, see the WISDOM calendar at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/wisdom.html and the BadgerLink and WISCAT training site at http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/wiscat/training.html.
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