The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation provides grants for literacy programs and books for bookmobiles.  Learn more! ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) offers a list of “great literacy websites for parents and kids.” Their Literacy for Life page has additional resources.  Consider following PDE on Facebook!   ...

This is part of a series of Session Notes from grantees who have received Professional Development grants from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries. Each grantee will share their professional development experience and include tips and other resources from the workshop or class....

The American Honda Foundation offers grants for youth education, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the environment, job training and literacy.  The next deadline is May 1, for returning organizations, and August 1 for new applicants.  Learn...

Three awards totaling $250,000 are being offered by the Library of Congress Literacy Awards program. Applications are due no later than March 31 at midnight EST. If you are part of an organization doing exemplary work in literacy or know of an organization that deserves recognition,...

The East Berlin Community Library will receive the Baker & Taylor Audio Music/Video Product Award in support of a project named “TeleText,” a combination of television and text. The library’s goal is to create a subtitled video collection for children. This specific collection...

Jeanie Sluck’s Work for Literacy Cited Jeanie Sluck, director of the Taylor Community Library, was honored by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Reading Association with its “Celebrate Literacy Award” during the Association’s 50th Anniversary Dinner recently. Sluck was recognized...