by angelaabel | May 8, 2018 | Articles
How Health Literacy Levels Impact Your Community Though everyone needs the ability to find, evaluate and use health information at some point in their lives, the National Assessment of Adult Literacy reports that nearly 36% of U.S. adults have an inadequate level of...
by angelaabel | May 3, 2018 | Articles
President Trump’s FY2019 budget proposal suggests eliminating virtually all library funding from the federal budget. Unfortunately, the president isn’t alone in considering major library budget cuts. Considering that Kentucky’s governor proposes an elimination of $2.5...
by angelaabel | Apr 24, 2018 | Articles
Children’s Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the United States. Hosted by Every Child a Reader, a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring a lifelong love of reading in children and teens, this initiative celebrates its 99th anniversary this...
by angelaabel | Apr 19, 2018 | Articles
Health literacy is a hot topic in public libraries right now, and it’s no wonder why. Pew Research reports that 80% of Internet users — that’s about 93 million Americans — have searched for health-related information online. Despite health being a topic that affects...
by angelaabel | Apr 12, 2018 | Articles
Recently I’ve been speaking to people all over the country about what a healthy lifestyle means to them. The reason I’m doing this is to understand where brain health fits in with overall health: eating right, exercise and emotional health. What I mostly hear from...
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