From my perspective, the phrase "community literacy" is most useful  
if it's used as a way to get people thinking about the role/impact of  
their literacy work in their respective communities, and for  
communities to think about how literacy impacts their community.

I don't think I would recommend employing the phrase as a term to  
simply describe all the available venues for literacy services in a  
given community beyond those provided by the school system or  
community college systems. At least that wouldn't be useful to us  
here in D.C.

Jeff

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Jeff Carter
Executive Director

DC LEARNs
1612 K Street, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006

www.dclearns.org
jcarter at dclearns.org
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On Jun 25, 2007, at 9:27 PM, Isserlis, Janet wrote:


> Are we talking about what community literacy is, as viewed through  

> a provider's lens, and/or are we exploring what it is that  

> community literacy - however broadly it may be defined - does for  

> people in communities?