Top of page

Film, Video 2023 Library of Congress Literacy Award Honorees

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

  • 2023 Library of Congress Literacy Award Honorees

Summary

  • The Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program honors nonprofit organizations that have made outstanding contributions to increasing literacy in the United States or abroad. This short video highlights the 2023 Library of Congress Literacy Awards winners and honorees. Learn more about the inspiring and innovative work of the News Literacy Project (2023 David M. Rubenstein Prize recipient), Downtown Boxing Gym (2023 American Prize recipient), and Worldreader (2023 International Prize recipient); as well as the following 15 organizations that are honored for their successful practices in literacy promotion:

    • Ako Aotearoa's Manako Program
    • Book Love Foundation
    • BookSpring
    • Building Tomorrow
    • Compassion Books
    • Dominican Literacy Center, Aurora
    • Get Lit - Words Ignite's Uni(verse) Program
    • An Open Book Foundation
    • Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (PAGE)
    • PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)
    • Queens Borough Public Library
    • Rio Grande Valley Literacy Center
    • Virginia Children's Book Festival
    • WISE Zambia
    • Yayasan Sulinama's Collaboration with INOVASI

Event Date

  • October 16, 2023

Running Time

  • 3 minutes 52 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

Rights & Access

While the Library of Congress created most of the videos in this collection, they include copyrighted materials that the Library has permission from rightsholders to present.  Rights assessment is your responsibility.  The written permission of the copyright owners in materials not in the public domain is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. There may also be content that is protected under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations.  Permissions may additionally be required from holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights). Whenever possible, we provide information that we have about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. However, the information we have may not be accurate or complete.

More about Copyright and other Restrictions

For guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources.

Credit Line: Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Library of Congress Literacy Award Honorees. 2023. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11090/.

APA citation style:

(2023) Library of Congress Literacy Award Honorees. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11090/.

MLA citation style:

Library of Congress Literacy Award Honorees. 2023. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11090/>.