Through its Reading for Life program it trains teachers and librarians, creates and improves community libraries and delivers tens of thousands of children's books annually.

The Southern Connecticut Library Council has offered to set up programs to train librarians across the state in early literacy development so that the librarians can offer classes for parents of children 6 months to 5 years.

The purpose and commitment of the school was to not only train librarians, but to create leaders for the betterment of library services in the South in general, and for African-Americans in particular.

In addition to a handful of Iranian advisers at government ministries, Iranian experts have trained more than 1,200 Afghan teachers, librarians and diplomats.

Another notable progression that arose after the "Williamson Report" was the establishment of The Hampton Institute Library School, the first library school to train African-American librarians in the US.

OverDrive also holds a biennial user group meeting called Digipalooza to train and educate librarians on the download service.

Edward M. Falcone, director of the Field Library, said the bar association had offered to train librarians in using the collection and to provide a self-help guide for patrons.

It also offers programs like Poetry in the Branches, an initiative that trains librarians around the country how to promote poetry in public libraries.

Rose issued a report to the American Library Association, in 1923, which stated that requests for books about Negros or written by Negros had been increasing, and that the demand for professionally trained colored librarians was also.

Mr. Thompson said today that the government would develop a program to train librarians nationwide so they could help beneficiaries get information about Medicare on the Web at www.medicare.gov.