The Improving Literacy Through School Libraries (ILTSL) program was created in 2001 as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. A competitive grant awards program that is now in its fourth cycle, ILTSL provides targeted 1-year grants to school libraries in districts where at least 20% of the students come from families whose annual income falls below the poverty line. A recently published report, Evaluation of the Improving Literacy Through School libraries Program (www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/other/libraries/intro.html), examines the positive changes that these schools have been able to make as a result of receiving the ILTSL grant. The report concludes that grant-recipient schools were able …