Getting Ready for Play! Toy Collections in Public Libraries

Carly Bastiansen, Jennifer Wharton

Abstract


Looking for a lively way to enhance early literacy services at your library? Hoping to increase circulation, community engagement, and fun in the children’s section? Consider adding circulating toys, games, puppets, and puzzles to your children’s collection.

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Sue McCleaf Nespeca, “The Importance of Play, Particularly Constructive Play, in Public Library Programming,” The Association for Library Service to Children, September 10, 2012, accessed August 8, 2015, www.ala.org/alsc/sites/ala.org.alsc/files/content/Play_formatted.pdf.

Kenneth R. Ginsburg, “The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds,” Pediatrics 119, no. 1 (January 2007): 182.

Betsy Diamant-Cohen, et al., “We Play Here!: Bringing the Power of Play into Children’s Libraries,” Children and Libraries 10, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 3.

Sarah D. Sparks, “Key to Vocabulary Gap Is Quality of Conversation, Not Dearth of Words,” Education Week, April 21, 2015, accessed Aug. 8, 2015, www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/04/22/key-to-vocabulary-gap-is-quality-of.html.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/cal13n4.13

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