F21: Learning to Play
Session Description
What happens when a kindergym and a family story time collide? 3 Emergent Literacy portfolio librarians set out to find out! Considering in-branch behaviors and customer-centered needs, GVPL librarians designed a prototype pilot project enhancing storytimes with play. We recount the successes, failures, and user-centered motivations for moving towards play-friendly early literacy programming.
Speakers
Niki Sutherland, GVPL
Biography
Niki Sutherland is a Public Services Librarian in the Emergent Literacy portfolio with the Greater Victoria Public Library. She has been gently challenging norms with small but meaningful changes in libraries since 2012. She loves her bikes, kids, chickens and sending late-night emails to politicians.
Leah Pearse, GVPL
Biography
Leah Pearse is a Public Services Librarian at the Greater Victoria Public Library, where she works in the Emergent Literacy Portfolio. She holds both a Master of Information and Library Studies as well as a Master of Archival Studies, both from the University of British and Columbia and has worked in both library and archival settings over the past nine years.