Home > Events and Programs > Special Events >Detroit Reads Special Events Events and Programs Events Exhibits Children and Young Adults Downloads     Home > Events and Programs > Special Events >Detroit Reads Special Events About Detroit Reads Literacy Tools at the Detroit Public Library Detroit Literacy Council Knight Foundation Initiative Technology Literacy & Career Center @ the Detroit Public Library Detroit Reads Contacts KNIGHT FOUNDATION’S TECHNOLOGY & LITERACY INITIATIVE On November 4 2009, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded a major grant to the Detroit Public Library for the purpose of introducing a Technology, Literacy & Career Center at the Parkman Branch Library, located at Oakman Blvd & Linwood. Through this grant, the Detroit Public Library will expand free Internet access to the public at the Parkman Branch library by building a new technology and literacy center. The library will be able to serve additional Detroiters in the neighborhood who are literacy challenged, need access to the Internet, or need help finding jobs. Join the Campaign to Erase illiteracy in Detroit! LEARN TO READ TEACH SOMEONE TO READ SPONSOR A NEW READER Call 313-481-1362 Email – Read@detroitpubliclibrary.org           The Detroit Public Library. All rights reserved. 2006