Pittsburgh
Storytelling in the Pittsburgh playgrounds has a unique organization in that it is entirely under the direction of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. All storytelling in the playgrounds is done by Children’s librarians or by students of The Training School for Children’s Librarians on the days books are exchanged.
The organized story hour, developed as a direct method of guiding the reading of children, originated with this library and has been carried on in connection with home library groups as well as in the branch libraries, the public schools, the playgrounds, and the social settlements of Pittsburgh, for a period of eleven years.
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh issues printed lists of the stories used and a pamphlet entitled “Storytelling—a Public Library Method” by Miss Frances Jenkins Olcott, Chief of the Children’s Department and Director of the Training School for Children’s Librarians.