Advantages:

• Be used as a tool for bringing in new users to a library.
  
  
• Provide access to toys that some cannot afford or would  normally not have at home. 
  
  
• Creates an atmosphere where a user, such as a parent or caregiver, can have access to advice and support from other parents. 
  
  
• Increase the availability and accessibility of approriate educational and recreational early intervention material. 

• Involve part of the community that was not involved with the library before (different age groups, clubs, organizations.) 
  
  
• Can create a new atmosphere and image for a library... One that is non-threatening to children; encouraging them to use the library. 

• Introduces a new level  of interaction among people in the library. Children can interact with other children, parents have a time and place to interact with their children and other parents. 
  
  
• Toys can offer a time to experience play in a non-clinical or integrated setting.
  
  
• Involvement of the different generations with one another. 
  
  
• Toys can go anywhere to a:  community room, hospital, treatment center, store, school, religious institution, daycare or nursery school, private home, or prison.  They are portable.
  
  
• Toys target a large audience:  children, teenagers, the handicapped,  adults with special needs and even senior citizens. 
  
  
• Many toys are inexpensive.