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Basic Education and Literacy Services

To identify, assemble, and make available resources useful in developing, implementing, and maintaining literacy activities; to cooperate with other ALA divisions, clusters, committees, and offices concerned with literacy and basic skills activities in libraries; to assist the Office of Library Outreach Services in providing information to public libraries about library literacy programs; to make librarians aware of the value of cooperation with other agencies in the formation and execution of literacy programs; to generate ideas for cluster and committee programs and publications.