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Bee Cave Public Library
A Family Place Library™ since 2017
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Family Place builds on the knowledge that good health, early learning, parental involvement, and supportive communities play a critical role in a young child's growth and development. The overall goal of Family Place Libraries is to develop and institutionalize a family friendly environment by transforming libraries into community centers for literacy, early childhood development, parent education and engagement, family support, and community information.
CORE COMPONENTS OF A FAMILY PLACE LIBRARY:
TRAINED STAFF
Assistant Library Director Gretchen Hardin, Public Services Manager Melissa Slaughter, Public Services Librarian Terry Lewis, and Youth Services Librarian Melissa Burke all completed the Family Place Training Institute in Long Island, New York. You can read an article written by our staff about the library's Family Place involvement HERE.
COLLECTIONS
We offer parents and caregivers a wide-ranging collection of parenting resources. Materials are available in print and electronic format. Family Place Libraries™ offers an extensive selection of online resources available HERE and parenting apps available HERE. Family Place Libraries also offers ParentTV free of charge to all Family Place libraries.
COLLABORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
Through partnerships with experts in the various fields of child development, Bee Cave Public Library connects parents to needed community resources and enhances library services and programs.
OUTREACH
Bee Cave Public Library offers ongoing and seasonal free programs for patrons of all ages and reaches out to families in person as well as through media and social media. More information on our kids, teens, and adult activities is available here.
PARENT-CHILD WORKSHOP
1*2*3 PlaySmart is a five-week program for toddlers and their parents/caregivers. Click here to learn more about 1*2*3 PlaySmart.
SPECIALLY DESIGNED SPACES
We have a fun and creative play and book area for our youngest patrons and their grown-ups.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS FOR BABIES AND TODDLERS
Bee Cave Public Library offers Family Storytime (ages 0-5) twice each week and a lapsit program for infants (0-1 year) once each week. Click here for more information on our storytimes.
For more information on Family Place Libraries™ visit their website at www.familyplacelibraries.org.
Click here to read an article about Bee Cave as a Family Place Library in the Fall 2024 issue of Children and Libraries, a journal of the American Library Association.
Our deepest thanks to the following groups who helped make all of this possible.