History
Libraries and Emergent Literacy
| Introduction |
| History |
| Brain Research |
| Pediatric
Partners |
| Parent
Education |
| Advocacy |
| Conclusion |
| Site
Map |
| References |
| William Caskey |
| LIBR 500: Foundations of Information Technology |
| School of Library, Archival, and Information Science |
| University of British Columbia |
| Last updated April 15, 2005 |
| Children's Librarians Storytime is a great way for young children to experience books and interact with language in a supportive and comfortable environment. The children's room is a nurturing area where children can have fun with books, rhymes, and songs. "As early as 1905, Frances Jenkins Wolcott, head of the children’s department of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library, 
described the ideal children’s room as one that was “beautifully
proportioned and decorated, and presided over by a genial and
sympathetic woman who has a genuine interest in the
personalities and preferences of the boys and girls."4 Nowadays it's not just
women
in
children's services. Until
the 1960s,
most storytimes were after school and
most programming was geared towards school aged children.
Toddlertimes got their start in the 1980s and babytimes in the 1990s.
These programs have largely been offered within libraries. Not Just Books The Mother Goose on the Loose program got its start with Canadian educator Barbara Cass-Beggs' library nursery-rhyme program for babies and young children in late 1988. Her emphasis was on fostering music education (Beggs was also an opera singer). The Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland, which adopted the Mother Goose On the Loose program, was active in emergent literacy programming. The structure and activities in Mother Goose On the Loose provided an optimal learning environment for the growth and development of babies' brains. Programs were presented for librarians throughout the state of Maryland that incorporated the most recent findings in brain research with training in how to plan and run Mother Goose On the Loose programs. 5 |
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