Libraries Receive Grants to Promote Family Literacy

Lynn Blumenstein -- School Library Journal, 8/7/2002

Forty-eight rural public libraries in ten states will each receive $3,000 family literacy grants as part of the 2002-2003 Viburnum Foundation/Center for the Book Family Literacy Project. The grants will allow the public libraries to create family literacy programs. The Library of Congress's Center for the Book administers the project and conducts two training workshops each year for new participants. This year, the workshops will be held in Columbia, SC, August 14-16, and in Scottsdale, AZ, September 25-27.

Since 1998, the project has awarded grants to more than 175 small public libraries in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas." A full list of this year's recipients can be found at www.loc.gov/today/pr/2002/02-100.html