Open AccessMarking a Milestone: Hosting a Kindergarten Library Card Party
Author(s) -
Anna Smithberger,
Ann Wahlstrom
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.18.2.24
Subject(s) - milestone , honor , league , general partnership , sign (mathematics) , library science , sociology , psychology , political science , computer science , history , internet privacy , law , mathematics , physics , mathematical analysis , archaeology , astronomy
Take one Caldecott Honor winner and add scores of kindergarteners. Throw in an effort to sign up more library users. Toss in a bunch of enthusiastic volunteers. That’s the recipe for Ramsey County (MN) Library’s (RCL) recent Kindergarten Library Card Party.It’s a program that has been running since 2008, starting humbly as a partnership between the Friends of the Ramsey County Libraries and the Junior League of St. Paul. The latter, a local women’s nonprofit organization focusing on volunteerism, was interested in developing a program where they could put books into the hands of kindergarteners.