SCHOOL LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE

Volume 7, Number 2, July 2001, 65-71.

Theme: Resources and Services for Special Groups

Village Reading Rooms: Book Outreach in Botswana [PDF file]
Margaret Baffour-Awuah and Morwadi Pilane
Village reading rooms (VRRs) are an extension of Botswana s Public Library Service into rural areas. At its beginning in 1986, the VRR project was closely linked to the adult literacy programme of the Department of Non-Formal Education. The VRRs were intended primarily to serve adult literacy learners and newly literate adults. However, because the VRRs had to be housed at first in existing school buildings, schoolchildren have become the most active and most numerous users. The villages have claimed the VRRs as an important part of community life.

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