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The Illinois Reading Enrichment and Development (iREAD) program is a coordinated, self-supporting effort to develop and provide high-quality, low-cost resources and products to enable local library staff to promote reading. The program’s audience is kindergarten through grade eight, but may provide supplemental materials for preschoolers, teens, and adults. The program’s goals are:

- to provide a program that supports local library efforts to promote literacy and life-long learning;
- to provide a forum for grassroots involvement across the state;
- to encourage statewide participation in and use of the IREAD theme;
- to encourage efficient use of local staff time by networking resources across the state;
- to provide high-quality, low-cost products through volume purchase; and
- to provide resources and projects suitable for all size libraries, rural, urban, and suburban.