Daily Archives: March 13, 2011

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What Are Words For? from Steven V. Kaszynski

From The Go Librarians,  Steven V. Kaszynski writes: http://golibrarians.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/what-are-words-for/ Everybody loves ALA’s classic celebrity READ posters. And for good reason. Multi-age, culturally relevant celebrities inspiring multi-age people to read books and get literate. They’re popular and possibly even effective. Still, the READ poster is alone in its work. It wants a family. It needs siblings. Libraries continue to evolve and struggle against their own underrepresentation. They seek ways to break the mold. The READ campaign advocates literacy and promotes the library as a literacy center or, from a non-LIS perspective, a place to get free books. But isn’t that the […]