The WLN™ and Storytime STEM-packs™

For those of us in the Westmoreland Library Network (WLN) who helped give birth to the project now known as Storytime STEM-packs, the trademarked name of the Allegheny Intermediate Unit 3 Math & Science Collaborative embodies years of invaluable STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics) professional development for library staff. That is even especially so for the Children’s Librarians who have learned to seamlessly integrate STEM into Summer Reading Club programming for preK-4 children. I want to tell you about the product, Storytime STEM-packs, that has arisen with the professional development. I will quote liberally from the Collaborative itself, beginning with one of its earliest marketing tools, a larger-than-usual bookmark. “Storytime STEM-packs are an educational innovat…