Play-Based Community Engagement: Enhancing Early Learning Services Through Play-Centered Outreach, Library Installations, and Programming

Play with your families! When Sacramento Public Library made play the center of its early learning efforts, it immediately resounded with families, creating increased engagement, a shift in perceptions about the library, and more opportunities for staff to model and share early learning information. Learn strategies to infuse do-it-yourself play activities into outreach, programming, and library spaces and discover how to connect your community with critical early learning information through the universal appeal of play.