Libraries with budgets for staff training would do well to consider hosting an expert to conduct a workshop to teach children’s librarians why and how to conduct programs for infants and toddlers. Speaker expenses could be offset by inviting parents, teachers, and neighboring library staff and charging a fee to attend. Robin Davis, author of Toddle On Over, Developing Infant and Toddler Literature Programs, recommends that children’s librarians who are considering starting their own program “find someone in a nearby community who already has experience and arrange to go there and observe.”[i]
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