Here is one useful email for those of you who work in Reader
Development.
Bsail Nankivell
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From: Genevieve Clarke [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 18 June 2004 09:12
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Cc: Basil Nankivell; Ruth
Subject: basic skills resources
In response to Basil Nankivell's enquiry about basic
skills resources, glad to hear they have invested in
the First Choice collections of mainstream titles for
adults with reading ages between 9 and 14 - in fact
I've seen them prominently on display in Bath Central
Library.
The Basic Skills Agency Resource Centre is a good
source of information about practical texts and
readers - see
http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp? (or http://www.ioe.ac.uk
under Library) for their online catalogue.
Meanwhile through the Reading Agency's Vital Link
programme we are continuing to identify mainstream
fiction and non-fiction titles for this audience. Some
of you will be interested to hear that Irish publisher
New Island's fourth Open Door series is now available
including titles by Patricia Scanlan, Gareth
O'Callaghan and Niall Quinn - either via Books for
Students or see http://www.newisland.ie
Audio publisher W F Howes (http://www.wfhowes.co.uk)
plan to produce audio versions of these in the autumn.
A new Scottish publisher based in Dingwall, Sandstone
Press, has also started producing fiction for this
market, starting with three titles by Scottish authors
in a series called Vista - see
http://www.sandstonepress.com
Finally, we're pleased to report that some major UK
publishers are now talking about putting together a
series for 'new' adult readers. If you'd like to keep
up to date with this, please keep an eye on the Vital
Link website at http://www.vitallink.org.uk and sign
up for our quarterly email newsletter. Many thanks
Genevieve
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Genevieve Clarke
National Coordinator, The Vital Link
w: 01672 562080 m: 0772 959 7680 [log in to unmask]
http://www.vitallink.org.uk
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