Learning Environments for Young Children: Rethinking Library Spaces and Services
- ISBN-10
- 0838907369
- ISBN-13
- 9780838907368
- Category
- Children's libraries
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Authors
- Sandra Feinberg, Joan F. Kuchner, Sari Feldman
Description
The vision of Learning Environments for Young Children: Rethinking Library Spaces and Services is about learning, families, and community, where the public library presents a community-based educational setting in which librarians serve as educators, guides, coaches, and facilitators of lifelong, active learning; access for children to enriching, satisfying, and developmentally appropriate resources and learning opportunities; diverse collections, programs, and technical resources for young children and the adults in their lives; programs and resources that encourage children's focused participation, creativity, critical thinking, cooperation, and problem solving; and a nonjudgmental, integrated, and interdisciplinary approach to lifelong learning, developing the whole person, child or adult. Included in Learning Environments for Young Children are field-tested measuring instruments that you and your staff can use to conduct a qualitative assessment of your library's children's services. These ready-to-use forms will help you collect information that will highlight the importance of early childhood services in presentations to funding sources, trustees, and other key stakeholders.
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