This document discusses promising practices for using new media with young children ages 0-5 and their families in libraries. It recommends that libraries model joint engagement with media to help children develop from media consumers to creators. The library should be a place where new ideas are explored through media instead of just storing information. Specific practices mentioned include modeling media use, telling stories that blend traditional and digital media, offering paper circuitry programs, and incorporating STEAM activities.

1. Cen Campbell
Children’s Librarian, LittleeLit.com

2. LittleeLit.com
Promising
practices for the
use of new
media with
children 0-5 &
their families

3. Making things...
…. isn’t new for us.

4. Neither is incorporating new kinds of media

5. Consumption/Creation

6. Consumer
Adopter
Adaptor
Creator

7. Media Mentors
The library is the
place where ideas are
had, not just
warehoused

8. Modeling Joint Media Engagement

9. Telling Transliteracy Tales

10. Paper
Circuitry:
Mountain
View
Hackerlings

11. STE(A)M in
the Library
from Preschool Shadow
Science by Amy Koester
http://www.alsc.ala.
org/blog/2014/02/preschool-
shadow-science/

14. Young Children, New
Media & Libraries
LittleeLit.com
@littleelit