Every Child a Library Member was a project in Scotland designed to introduce automatic library membership at key stages throughout the early years, The project was launched in August 2015 by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, with all of Scotland's 32 Local Authorities signing up to take part. This session presents the results of the evaluation of the project, carried out by Professor Peter Reid and Caroline Hood, and examines some of the pilot schemes, the methodologies used, the challenges and good practice introduced to encourage automatic library membership from birth onwards.