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A 26 page paper that begins with a definition of literacy, the three types of literacy assessed and scoring processes. National and international literacy rates are then reported along with the negative effects of illiteracy. The paper then changes to report the history of the New York Public Library, which provides services in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Borough Public Library. The adult literacy programs offered by each of these library systems is reported, the types of services, the characteristics of the literacy programs and the number of locations for these programs. The paper ends with a report of the New York City Adult Literacy Initiative. Statistical data are included. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
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studies since and wherever possible, these later statistics have been used. The next major literacy study was in 2003, the data are not yet available or they are not
accessible.] Literacy: What Is Literacy, Testing and Scoring Process The National Assessments of Adult Literacy (NAAL) defines literacy as: "using printed and written information to function in society, to achieve
ones goals, and to develop ones knowledge and potential" (n.d.). survey are not yet accessible. This definition is more complex than previous definitions that identified reading and writing at a
certain level, in other words, basic decoding and writing are no longer accepted as literacy. This definition incorporates "a broad range of information-processing skills that adults use in accomplishing the
range of tasks associated with work, home, and community contexts" (National Assessments of Adult Literacy n.d.). This definition has been used by different policy-making bodies, such as the U.S. Congress,
who in 1991, passed the National Literacy Act of 1991 and defined literacy as "an individuals ability to read, write, and speak in English and compute and solve problems at
levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society, to achieve ones goals, and to develop ones knowledge and potential" (National Assessments of Adult Literacy n.d.). An
individuals literacy level cannot be defined by a single skill, such as reading a document and it cannot be defined by a specific set of skills needed to read that
document (National Assessments of Adult Literacy). The NAAL study for instance, assesses three domains of literacy: 1. Prose literacy, which is the skill to understand and use information gained from
a variety of sources, such as news stories, texts, editorials, poems and fiction (National Assessments of Adult Literacy; Statistics Canada). 2. Document literacy, which considers the knowledge and skills needed
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