Public Policies and Public Library-Emergent Literacy Relationship in the USA

American Library Association. (2007). 21st century literacy at your library. Retrieved November 10, 2007 from http://www.ala.org/ work/literacybrochure.html

Anderson, J. and Matthews, R. (2000). Emergent storybook reading. Journal of Research in Reading, 22(3), 93-98.

Bowman, B., Donovan, S., & Burns M. S. (Eds.). (2001). Eager to learn: Educating our preschoolers. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. Retrieved December 16, 2007, from http:// books.nap.edu/books/0309068363/html/index.html

CAPE. (2002). Monroe County Children Matter. Retrieved November 17, 2002 from http://www.indiana.edu/~ectesite/ cape/monroe_county.htm

Census (2000). The City of Bloomington Census 2000 profile. Retrieved November 11, 2007 from http://www.city. bloomington.in.us/planning/lr/census/

Christie, J. F. (1995). Literacy play interventions: A review of empirical research. In S. Reifel (Ed.), Advances in Early Education and day care Vol. 6: Topics in Early Literacy, Teacher Preparation, and International Perspectives on Early Care, (pp. 3-28). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Connecticut State Library (2007). Library Services and Technology Act State of Connecticut. Retrieved November 7, 2007 from http://www.cslib.org/lsta/5year.htm

Department of Education (2007a). Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Retrieved November 7, 2007 from http://www.ed.gov/ legislation/GOALS2000/TheAct/

Department of Education (2007b). Reading Excellence Act. Retrieved November 7, 2007 from http://www.ed.gov/inits/ FY99/1-read.html

Dowd, F. S. (1997). Evaluating the impact of public library story time programs upon the emergent literacy of preschoolers: a call for research. Public Libraries, 36(6), 346-358.

Fehrenbach, L. A., Hurford, D. P., Fehrenbach, C. R., & Brannock, R. G. (1998). Developing the emergent literacy of preschool children through a library outreach program. Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 12(1), 40-45.

Kinney, M. S. (1996). A naturalistic inquiry into the effect of emergent literacy behavior on families in public housing communities. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh:PA.

Koehnecke, D. S. (2000). Increasing literacy through storytelling. Reading Improvement, 37(4), 187-189.

McKechnie, L. (1996). Opening the preschoolers’ doors to learning: an ethnographic study of the use of public libraries by preschool girls. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. University of Western Ontario, London: Ontario.

Merriam, S. B. (2001). Qualitative research and case study applications in education. San Francisco, Ca: Jossey-Bass.

Morton, D. S. (2007). The Rhode Island READS Experience. Retrieved November 8, 2007 from http://www.national service.org/research/fellows_reports/morton.pdf

Nespeca, S. M. (1995). Parental involvement in emergent literacy skills of urban Head Start children. Early Child Development and Care, 111, 153-180.

No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-110.

Pankey, J. C. (2000). The benefits of reading aloud to preschool children. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Biola University, La Mirada: CA (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED448866).

Patton, M. Q. (1985). Quality in qualitative research: methodological principles and recent developments. Invited address to division Journal of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL

Phillips, L. (1999). The role of storytelling in early literacy development. Retrieved December 6, 2007 from http://www. home.aone.net.au/stories/doc/childhd.htm

Public Libraries Association. (2007). Public Library Association and Association for Library Services to Children’s preschool literacy initiative. Retrieved November 10, 2007 from http://www.pla.org/projects/preschool/preschool.html

Roskos, K. A. and Neuman, S. B. (1994). Of scribbles, schemas, and storybooks; using literacy albums to document young children’s literacy growth. Young Children, 49, 78-85.

Senechal, M. and LeFevre, J. A. (2001). Storybook reading and parent teaching: links to language and literacy development. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 92, 39-52.

Shonkoff, J. P. and Phillips D. A. (2000). From neurons to neighborhoods: The science of early childhood development. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Storch, S. A. and Whitehurst, G. J. (2001). The role of family and home in the literacy development of children from low-income backgrounds. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 92, 53-71.

Sulzby, E. (1991). Emergent literacy. In Rebecca Barr (Ed.), Handbook of Reading Research (pp.727-753). Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates.

Teale, W. H. (1995). Public libraries and emergent literacy: helping set the foundation for school success. In B. F. Immroth and V. Ash-Geisler (Eds.), Achieving school readiness: public libraries and national education goal no.1 (pp. 113-133). Chicago, IL: American Library Association.

The Association for Library Service to Children. (2007). Born to read: A project fact sheet. Retrieved November 2, 2007 from http://www.ala.org/alsc/born.html