Recognizing the academic benefits of access to print for young children, book distribution programs abound in the United States. Designed to promote book ownership for low-income families, programs have unique delivery systems, leading to a largely fragmented policy. This article describes an urban city’s effort to build a coordinated book distribution program. Phase 1 examines the extent of book distributions, integrating data from 74 organizations and their branches (297). Using geographic information systems, we determined the spatialized patterns of scarcity and/or opportunity and the alignment between the intended and actual audience. In Phase 2, we conducted nine focus groups from neighborhoods receiving these book distributions. Results highlight the complexities of a well-intentioned policy and how multiple methods might inform policymaking in the future.

认识到幼儿可以获得印刷品的学术好处，美国的图书分发计划比比皆是。旨在提高低收入家庭的图书所有权的计划具有独特的交付系统，从而导致政策分散。本文介绍了一个城市建立协调的图书分发计划的工作。第一阶段检查图书发行的程度，整合来自74个组织及其分支机构的数据（297）。使用地理信息系统，我们确定了稀缺性和/或机会的空间格局以及目标受众和实际受众之间的一致性。在第2阶段，我们从收到这些图书分发的社区进行了9个焦点小组讨论。