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(2020). Learning across boundaries: How librarians are bridging children’s interests. New York: The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.  \nLearning Across Boundaries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.  \nThe Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop  \nThe Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop investigates the potential of digital media to help children learn and collaborates with educators, media producers, policymakers, and investors to put this research into action. An independent nonprofit organization, the Center addresses issues of digital equity and aims to strengthen connections between formal and informal learning environments. Learn more at [joanganzcooneycenter.org](joanganzcooneycenter.org)  \nA full-text PDF of this report is available as a free download from [joanganzcooneycenter.org](joanganzcooneycenter.org).  \nThe Families Learning Across Boundaries (FamLAB) Project is generously supported by funding from the Heising-Simons Foundation, Bezos Family Foundation, and Verizon Foundation.  \n3  \n4  \n5  \n7  \n7  \n13  \n14  \n18  \n21  \n27  \n30  \n33  \n33  \n33  \ncontents  \nbackground  \nMethods Participants  \nfindings  \nSupporting children’s interests Connecting learning across settings  \nSchool Home Community  \nEvolving as community learning hubs Key findings  \nreferences  \nappendix  \nOpen-ended response coding methods  \n2  \nbackground  \nThe aim of the  Families Learning Across Boundaries Project (FamLAB) is to create an ecosystem that can enable and encourage young children’s interestdriven learning across settings. With this in mind, we surveyed 407 library professionals serving communities across the United States to ask how libraries fit into this ecosystem and how they are doing so differently than how they might have 50 years ago, given advances in information and communication technologies. This report complements another we recently published on how parents and teachers function within this ecosystem (Takeuchi, Vaala, & Ahn, 2019 ) and describes the special relationships library professionals have with parents and teachers which allows them to help facilitate home-community and school-community connections.  \nLibraries have been around for nearly as long as information has taken the written form, with some dating back to 2200 B.C.  \n(Casson, 2002). In ancient times, libraries housed documents of governmental, historical, and cultural importance and, as these documents became duplicable and less costly—thanks to technological advances such as the printing press—libraries began to open their doors to citizens to view and learn from these resources. The institution has since specialized, with public, private, university, and K–12 school libraries being the most common in the United States, alongside digital libraries, some of which hold vastly greater collections of documents than their brick-and-mortar peers. But the American brickand-mortar library has evolved tobe much more than just collections of resources. In many communities, libraries have embraced the digital revolution while maintaining their role as lively spaces, where children can attend story time, students can get homework done, adults can get help on their income taxes or job search, and families can attend movie screenings. Today’s libraries are as much about the people in them—library staff and patrons alike—as the print and digital resources they offer.  \nEven as mobile phones and the Internet have made it easy to find an answer to virtually any question anytime and anywhere, libraries still see a steady flow of patrons. According to Pew Research Center, 48% of Americans age 16 and older visited a library or bookmobile in 2016, up from 44% in 2015 (Horrigan, 2016). 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