LITERACY CENTER SELECTED AS REGIONAL SITE

The Texas Literacy Resource Center at Texas A & M University is one of three sites nationwide selected by the National Institute For Literacy for development as a regional technology site for literacy providers (the two other sites are in Ohio and California).

As a regional hub, the center will establish a World Wide Web site for each state literacy resource center. Literacy resource center directors will be trained how to use and develop their own Web sites. The state center will then train the literacy, adult education and workforce providers in their state in how to use the Internet and access information via the Web.

"By training state and local literacy providers how to use the Internet and World Wide Web, they will be able to access information from across the nation as well as "talk" to other providers about programs and problems they face," said JoAnn Martin, director of the Texas Literacy Resource Center. "It will literally break down the walls and create a nationwide link for literacy."