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Advocacy: part II: Route 66: from Chicago to literacy advocacy.(President's Message)
In my first column, I mentioned the symbolic journey on the old Route 66 from Chicago to L.A.--Library Advocacy (AL, Aug./Sept., p. 8). Let's now embark on the second part of that tripe. It is still the same route from Chicago to L.A., but this time the road leads to Literacy Advocacy. Although I include all types of literacy, such as reading, information, financial, cultural, and technical/digital, my focus here is on reading.
As library professionals, we know that a literate nation helps us maintain our democratic ideals, such as freedom of speech, expression, and press. Our populace can read and stay abreast of issues that affect those democratic ideals. They can read and …
