Explore: Libraries And Illiterate

Capitoline Hill. Private libraries appeared during the late republic: Seneca inveighed against libraries fitted out for show by illiterate owners who scarcely

who read and write only in a language other than the predominant language of their environs may also be considered functionally illiterate in the predominant

Bank. Public libraries in Kenya have existed since the beginning of the 18th century. These however, were mainly subscription libraries that relied heavily

empowerment and environmental sustainability." A majority of prisoners have been found to be illiterate, and in Edinburgh prison, winner of the 2010 Libraries Change

public libraries. By 500 BCE both Athens and Samos had begun creating libraries for the public, though as most of the population was illiterate these spaces

project to teach basic literacy skills, life skills, and legal empowerment to 150-200 illiterate women aged of 15 - 35 residing in the Giza Governate

wagon, book wagon, book truck, library-on-wheels, and book auto service. Bookmobiles expand the reach of traditional libraries by transporting books to potential

Pack Horse Library Project, many people in rural Appalachian Kentucky did not have access to books. The percentage of people who were illiterate in eastern

professionals, or academia. Mass literacy, the printing press, public libraries, television, and modern information technology such as the Internet have played

of Counties Award for its Library Literacy Program, the first in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania handling 30,000 illiterate and 15,000 non-English speaking