Big Storytime Question #4

It’s Big Storytime Question Week! Here are Questions One, Two, and Three.

The final question my boss and I asked at our ALSC presentation was:

What would you change about storytime at your library?

If you were in charge, what would you do? If you ARE in charge, what changes have you made and why?

Here’s what the session attendees wrote:

More participants [x2…checked off by a second person]
Less chaos
Longer time for class
Dedicated children’s staff
Bigger space
More funding for program needs
More music
More dancing
Education of Library Assistants to improve presentation quality
After coming here, EVERYTHING! [We were in the last session group, and ALL of the sessions before us rocked and were loaded with ideas.]
More collaboration
High quality & consistency between branches and staff
Written district expectations
Thoughtfulness about WHY we do what we do
Innovation
More adult (parent, caregiver teacher) participation
More songs and fingerplays
Registration vs. open drop-in?
Provide more support for my staff
Building morale of Library Assistants who don’t think they get paid enough to do storytime