Play On! Bee Cave Public Library and the Family Place Initiative

Abstract

On any given Tuesday morning, Bee Cave Public Library in Texas is bustling with families. When the doors open, the toddler crowd and their grown-ups, usually sixty to eighty people, gather and head upstairs to our community room for storytime.

After a lively half-hour program, those same families stream downstairs and fill our children’s space to visit, play with blocks and toys, and read books. After a while, the group thins out when it’s time for lunch and naps. As the families leave, they have bags loaded with library books slung over a shoulder or tucked into their stroller. This scene will be repeated twice more each week, year around.