This masters thesis takes the providers perspective on public library story times for children. The main questions are: What perspectives can the providers have? How does the perspective affect the content and how is the story time drawn up? Five story time providers were interviewed about the purpose of their story times, the methods they used and the content they chose. A model with four criteria was used to analyze the result of the interviews. The criteria were: adult criteria, consideration of the childrens view, pedagogical criteria and literary/story time criteria. These criteria form together four different possible perspectives on the public library story time. The providers perspective on public library story time does, in this thesis, have an effect on the purpose, the content, the methods and how the story time is drawn up. The story time content is affected by the purpose and methods chosen are also affected by the purpose or by the providers behaviour.