The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has made a Teen Literacies Toolkit available as an online PDF. In this toolkit, they use the “fake news” phenomenon as an approach to addressing multiple literacies. The kit re-examines and discusses culturally-inclusive literacies strategies library staff can use with teens to help them make sense of their world and build a robust set of skills as they prepare to enter college or start careers. This resource was created by the Literacies Toolkit Resource Retreat Participants and was released in August, 2017.
October is Health Literacy Month
For more than 20 years, October has been recognized as Health Literacy Month. Libraries, as trusted sources of...