The timing was right for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh to launch its first-ever Children’s Literacy Summit as a capstone to its 2025 Literacy Takes Flight initiative.

“It's the first full month of the new school year, it is National Literacy Month and Love Your Library Month in Allegheny County,” Andrew Medlar, president and director of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, told a crowd of about 100 people gathered in the main branch’s lecture hall Saturday.

“How can we come together to ensure every single child in Pittsburgh has access to the joy and the power of literacy in their communities?”

His opening underscored the summit’s purpose: Bring schools, researchers, librarians and nonprofits into the same room to share and coordinate work that is stronger when it happens in parallel.

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