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WRLS Story Bag
Collection
The WRLS Story Bags are a group of twenty-nine storytime
collections designed to assist system librarians with storytime
presentations.
Each story bag is designed around a theme. The collection is
owned by WRLS, but is available to the system librarians via the
delivery
service. Story bags are not catalogued and are not sent
outside WRLS.
1. What is the purpose of the story bag collection? The collection is intended to enhance the storytime
programs of the system libraries. Storytime planners will need
additional books from their own library collections to complete the
program.
2. Who can use the story bag collection?
Only librarians, staff,
and volunteers at system libraries. These collections are not intended
to circulate to the
general public.
3.
How many
collections are there?
29
4.
What items are included in the collections?
*one big book (#28 has two big books)
*one flannel board (except #26, #27,
#29)
*one or two flannel
stories (except #26, #27, #29)
*one story mitt or finger puppet set
*one or two story mitt stories
*one theme-related puppet, stuffed toy, or prop (#26 has one
large and three small, #22 and #27have two)
*some include a pop-up book and/or a board book,
or one or more hard cover books
*#29 includes musical instruments and colored
boxes with small soft toys
Each bag contains an inventory sheet that lists the items
included in that story bag. This sheet should be checked to make sure
all parts
are in place before the bag is returned to WRLS.
5. What are the themes of the story bags?
1. Farm
Animals* 11. Jungle Stories
21. Pigs
2. Nursery
Rhymes* 12. More Fairy Tales 22. Frogs
3. Food
Stories* 13. Mother Goose 23.
Teddy Bears*
4. More Nursery
Rhymes 14. Dogs and Cats 24. Bugs*
5. Musical
Stories 15. Rabbits
25. Winter
6. Fairy
Tales 16.
Bears 26. Autumn Nights
7. Counting
Stories 17. Monkeys
27. Snowy Days
8. Silly
Stories 18.
Mice 28. Nature All Around*
9. More Farm
Animals* 19. Dinosaurs* 29. Baby
Books and Toys
10. Monsters &
Other 20. More
Monsters
Scary Stories
(*These story bags include activity books, with ideas for school-age
children as well as toddlers.)
6. Length of check-out period to a library: one or two weeks. If there is a high demand for a certain
story bag, we may ask you to
borrow it for one week at a time.
7. How is a story bag reserved?
Use the 800 number to call in your reservation:
(800-477-7131). Reserves may be made four months in
advance. Make your reservation
with Randy Dagnon or the ILL staff (ext. 7151) between 8:30am
and 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. Please CALL your request
in,
instead of emailing it to Randy; if he is out, then
another staff member can take the telephone call, but will not check his
email.
Specify the day you want to receive it on the van, and the
day you will return it. Please have a second choice in mind when
you call in case your first choice is already booked. Story
bags should be returned to WRLS as a complete unit. Use the
inventory page in each bag to ensure that all parts are
included in the story bag. Lost items will be billed to the library
that
checked out the story bag last.
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