NLS Supports New Literacy
Clearinghouse Project

The Provincial Information and Library Resources Board in collaboration with the Literacy Branch of the Department of Education and the Literacy Development Council of Newfoundland and Labrador has received funding from NLS to establish a Literacy Clearinghouse. Judy Escott (some readers may remember her as Judy Anderson) has been hired for one year as the coordinator for the Literacy Clearinghouse project.

Judy has been busy reviewing literacy resources including books for tutors to use with students, books for new adult readers, and information for practitioners and researchers. In addition to existing materials, new resources will be purchased to enhance the collection. Literacy groups, practitioners and learners, will be encouraged to borrow materials.

It is also hoped that groups that have developed materials will donate copies to the Literacy Clearinghouse so that they can be shared with others. Judy will be contacting groups and traveling to meet with literacy providers in the near future. For additional information on the Literacy Clearinghouse project contact Judy at (709) 737-3976 or email judyescott@nlpubliclibraries.ca

Hope has been actively involved in community development and adult education for over 10 years, having instructed the Business Education Program at the St. Anthony District Vocational School now known as the College of the North Atlantic. She was also at the forefront in the establishment of the FFAW Education Centres and was one of the first instructors to be hired to get this initiative of the ground. Hope is currently employed with the Northern Peninsula Family Resource Centres and is also a trustee with the Northern Peninsula Labrador South School District. Hope resides in Griquet with her husband Lester and daughter Kayla.