{"id":7366,"date":"2013-10-17T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=7366"},"modified":"2013-10-02T22:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:09:18","slug":"remembering-the-wonder-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/remembering-the-wonder-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Wonder of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are all aware that libraries have been changing. Librarians are busy making future plans and choices for their Children\u2019s and Youth Services departments. Build a Makerspace? Invest in e-reader devices for patrons to use in the library or check out? Buy a 3-D printer? Bring a Smart Board into story time? The jobs ads posted for Children\u2019s and\/or Youth Services librarians usually contain the term \u201ctech-savvy\u201d\u009d in the description.<\/p>\n

Now, before you start thinking this is going to be an anti-technology post, let me assure you otherwise. I\u2019m not arguing about the important role of social media and digital choices in today\u2019s library. Of course technology is imperative, pragmatic, ubiquitous, and learning new technologies is fun! I love my e-reader and the convenience it provides me with. I love that at 9pm when I realize I have read every single book in the library book pile to my child 10 times each, I can quickly download a couple of e-books from my library. I\u2019m just saying that as librarians and librarians-to-be, may we never forget about the value of books for children. I speak of the physical objects.<\/p>\n

Young children are developing so many skills\u2026\u2026.fine motor, gross motor, and cognitive. Babies and toddlers need to grab at books, squeeze them, chew on them, and throw them. Preschoolers need to hold books, feel the cover, turn the pages, point, and learn about upside down and right side up. All children need to be able to pick up books, study the cover, browse through them, discover their interests, and make choices.<\/p>\n

The American Academy of Pediatrics<\/a> recommends that \u201cPediatricians should continue to urge parents to avoid TV- and video-viewing for children younger than 2 years.\u201d\u009d As far as fostering and supporting the many areas of development in our children, parents are faced with many choices. As for developing collections, programs, and reinventing the space in our libraries dedicated to children, librarians are faced with many choices. Let\u2019s not forget, there are so many ways to support healthy brain development, and books play such an important role.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy photo from Jill Eisele<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our guest blogger today is <\/i>Jill A. Eisele<\/i><\/span>.\u00a0 Jill is a Youth Services Assistant at Bellwood Public Library<\/a>. She has received her BS in Child Development at Northern Illinois University, and is currently an MLIS Candidate at Dominican University.<\/i><\/p>\n

Please note that as a guest post, the views expressed here do not represent the official position of ALA or ALSC.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to write a guest post for the ALSC Blog, please contact Mary Voors, ALSC Blog manager, at alscblog@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are all aware that libraries have been changing. Librarians are busy making future plans and choices for their Children\u2019s and Youth Services departments. Build a Makerspace? Invest in e-reader devices for patrons to use in the library or check out? Buy a 3-D printer? Bring a Smart Board into story time? The jobs ads posted for Children\u2019s and\/or Youth Services librarians usually contain the term \u201ctech-savvy\u201d\u009d in the description. Now, before you start thinking this is going to be an anti-technology post, let me assure you otherwise. I\u2019m not arguing about the important role of social media and digital choices in today\u2019s library. Of course technology is imperative, pragmatic, ubiquitous, and learning new technologies is fun! I love my e-reader and the convenience it provides me with. I love that at 9pm when I realize I have read every single book in the library book pile to my child…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[210,24,96,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-digital-world","category-early-literacy","category-guest-blogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}