Coded to Succeed: A Beginner’s Primer to Robots, Kids, and Libraries

Perhaps you’ve heard the stories, read the news reports, or seen it for yourself. Perhaps you let yourself lapse into daydreams—what if my library had robots?—but then quickly returned to reality. Perhaps the time has come to change that. This article’s goal is to get youth and teen librarians excited about robots and their interactions with young patrons, provide them with resources for further investigation, ideas from other libraries, and tell what’s going on in the world of kids and bots.