Books for BC Babies Brings Parents into Libraries

Authors

  • Caroline Margaret Johnson SLAIS, UBC

Abstract

The Books for BC Babies program encourages shared reading experiences between parents and infants. This first quantitative study of a literacy bag program of this scale in North America showed a significant impact on parental behaviour in reading to their infants (more than 60% of parents began reading to their babies) and using library resources and programs as a result of a program distributing book bags containing board books, music cds and information about the importance of reading to babies.

Author Biography

Caroline Margaret Johnson, SLAIS, UBC

MLIS candidate, SLAIS, UBC,

Research Assistant, Books for BC Babies

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Published

2009-03-16

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2009)

Section

News & Features