Move, Play, Read!

Authors

  • Noah Lenstra
  • Heidi Whelan
  • Jenn Carson
  • Kelly Senser
  • Michelle Bennett-Copeland
  • Christy Dyson
  • Danielle Fortin
  • Barbara Scott
  • Catherine Jellison

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.19.1.3

Abstract

When the pandemic shut down many libraries in spring 2020, children’s librarians had to be creative to fill the void when most in-person programming stopped. In this collection of articles, librarians used everything from outside activities (like storywalks) to motion and movement programs to engage children. See how they helped students move, play, and read!—Editor

Author Biographies

Noah Lenstra

Dr. Noah Lenstra started Let’s Move in Libraries in 2016 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s School of Education, where he is an Assistant Professor of library and information science. His book Healthy Living at the Library was published in 2020 by Libraries Unlimited.

Heidi Whelan

Heidi Whelan is Youth Services Librarian at Baxter Memorial Library in Gorham, Maine. She has a bachelor’s degree in LIS from the University of Maine at Augusta and is currently enrolled in the MLIS program at Kent State.

Jenn Carson

Jenn Carson is a professional yoga teacher and the director of the L.P. Fisher Public Library in Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. She is the award-winning author of Get Your Community Moving: Physical Literacy Programs for All Ages and Yoga and Meditation at the Library: A Practical Guide for Librarians. She was a 2019 Library Journal Mover & Shaker for her physical literacy advocacy.

Kelly Senser

Kelly Senser is a Children’s Services Library Assistant for Loudoun County Public Library in northern Virginia. She worked at the National Wildlife Federation for twenty years and has been a certified Virginia Master Naturalist since 2015.

Michelle Bennett-Copeland

Michelle Bennett-Copeland is the Library Director at the Fayette County Public Library in Georgia. She had previously worked in the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System for eighteen years. As a Branch Manager there, she received a Community Champion Award, from Adamsville-Collier Heights Business District, for excellent community engagement.

Christy Dyson

Christy Dyson is an Assistant Branch Manager for Fulton County Library System. Originally from Denver, Colorado and a graduate of Clark Atlanta University School of Library and Information Science, she worked as a public services librarian and as the coordinator of teen service programs for the Fayette County [GA] Public Library.

Danielle Fortin

Danielle Fortin is the Teen Services Librarian at the McArthur Public Library in Biddeford, Maine and the Chair of the Youth Services Section for the Maine Library Association.

Barbara Scott

Barbara Scott has been Children’s Librarian at Bucyrus Public Library in Ohio for 35 years. She is also Executive Director of Crawford Reads 20, a county-wide initiative. She also directs the Governor’s Imagination Library for Crawford County.

Catherine Jellison

Catherine Jellison is an Early Literacy Specialist at the Crofton Branch of the Anne Arundel County Public Library in Maryland.

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Published

2021-04-07

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2021): Spring

Section

Features

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