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Skills for life? : the meaning and value of literacy : proceedings of the Youth Libraries Group Conference, Mason Hall, University of Birmingham, September 1992 / edited by Keith Barker and Ray Lonsdale.

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Skills for life? : the meaning and value of literacy : proceedings of the Youth Libraries Group Conference, Mason Hall, University of Birmingham, September 1992 / edited by Keith Barker and Ray Lonsdale.
Author
Youth Libraries Group Conference (1992 : University of Birmingham)
Publication
London : Taylor Graham, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Barker, Keith.
  • Library Association. Youth Libraries Group.
  • Lonsdale, Ray.
Description
107 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Libraries and new literates > Great Britain > Congresses
  • Literacy > Great Britain > Congresses
  • Literacy programs > Great Britain > Congresses
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Keith Barker and Ray Lonsdale -- Definitions and meanings of literacy / Kevin J. McGarry -- The reading debate: the write weigh to do it / Angie Packwood -- Publishing and bookselling -- an overview / Chester Fisher -- Literacy in the inner city: the Camden experience / John Wilkins -- Library authority response: a rural county / Elspeth Mitcheson -- Libraries and literacy: how public libraries should respond / Pat Coleman -- Literacy, education and the needs of the disabled child / Desmond Spiers -- Media education / Cary Bazalgette -- Aural literacy -- the discerning listener / Linda Hardwell -- Computer literacy / James E. Herring -- Literacy: the multi-cultural dimension / Susheila Stone -- Postscript / Grace Kempster.
ISBN
0947568603 (pbk) :
LCCN
gb^94085630^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library