The Literacy and Reading Section of IFLA is holding a sesson, Libraries for Literacy: Linking generations, Empowering communities, on  Monday 13 August, 16.00- 18.00, Session Room 4, as part of the World Library and Information Congress in Helsinki, Finland, 11-17 August 2012.

The programme is as follows:

• Lifelong reading
  Keynote speaker: BARBRO WIGELL-RYYNÄNEN (Library Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture, Helsinki, Finland)
• The National Year of Reading: a case study of librarians as key partners in empowering communities and building a nation of readers
  CAROLYNN RANKIN (Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom)
• Promoting inter-generational literacy: the case of Gayaza Family Learning Resource Centre (GFLRC) programme in Central Uganda where mothers read and write with their children
  NAPAGI AUGUSTINE TIMOTHY (Gayaza Family Learning Resource Centre, Kampala, Uganda)
• Educating librarians for literacy and building community
  WALLACE KOEHLER (Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA)
• Libraries promoting intergenerational dialogue – discussion
  IVANKA STRICEVIC (Croatia)