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• Integrating Lifelong Learning Perspectives
  This publication is comprised of 43 papers on the topic of promoting lifelong learning.
• Literacy & Libraries: Learning from Case Studies
  This book presents 22 personal narratives in which library directors, program administrators, teachers, tutors, librarians, and adult learners explain firsthand how literacy programs at libraries across the United States have changed people's lives. The following narratives are included: "Gloria's Story: 'She Wanted Me to Be Somebody'"; A Learner in a Library Literacy Program in Hawaii" (Sondra Cuban); "'I Know This Is the Place for Me': Stories of Library Literacy Learners and Programs" (John Comings, Sondra Cuban, Hans Bos, Cate Taylor); "A Place in the World: Building a Learner-Centered Participatory Literacy Program" (Leslie McGinnis); "Relearning Literacy and Leadership in a Library-Based Literacy Program" (Sherry Drobner); "Charting the Course for Learner Leadership" (Taylor Willingham); "Whole Literacy in Plymouth: Literacy as a Library Service" (Dinah L.
• The Preliterate Student: A Framework for Developing an Effective Instructional Program. ERIC/AE Digest
  A special subgroup of Limited English Speaking students is often referred to as students with limited formal schooling (LFS) or "preliterates" because they have not yet had the opportunity to learn to read. This digest explores important aspects of the LFS student population, defining LFS students and discussing their impact on schools, individualized language development plans, classroom instruction, and the assessment of the LFS student.