United Front Is Targeting Illiteracy ; Central Library Joins with Project Flight, Literacy Volunteers to Coordinate Strategy

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Right after becoming executive director of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library in 2008, Bridget Quinn-Carey stressed that improving the area's abysmal literacy rate would be Job One.

In her first "state of the library" message, Quinn-Carey linked the fact that 1 in 3 adults in the city and 1 in 5 countywide were considered functionally illiterate to Buffalo's ranking as one of the nation's poorest cities.

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United Front Is Targeting Illiteracy ; Central Library Joins with Project Flight, Literacy Volunteers to Coordinate Strategy

She pledged to do something about it by promoting reading programs and other initiatives -- measures she predicted would help lift the struggling local e...

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