Libraries Provide Opportunity For Early Childhood Literacy

President Barack Obama highlighted support for early learning in his State of the Union address.  He should go to the library, according to advocates for using the public library as a key part of the learning process for toddlers to four-year-olds.  

Many libraries these days are more than musty book stacks and card catalogs and maybe an occasional story-time session. They are becoming fun and inexpensive places for children and parents to write the opening chapters in a lifetime of learning.

Sandy Feinberg runs a national program called Family Place Libraries that teaches librarians how to adapt to the needs of pre-kindergarten kids.

A recent nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center found that 82-percent of those polled “strongly support libraries offering free early literacy programs to help young children prepare for school.”