Download or read book Senior Services Today written by Ashley Brooks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior citizens (frequently referred to by the more inclusive term “older adults”) are one of the largest and fastest growing demographics in the world. Public libraries have a duty to serve these individuals with the same level of care and opportunity for participation that is afforded to younger generations. This book explores older adults’ values and needs and describes the many ways libraries can serve them in effective ways. Senior Services Today: A Practical Guide for Librarians is a comprehensive guide to library services for this important community. Chapters cover these critical areas: Engaging Older Adults in Library Programs and Services Understanding Demographic Differences Marketing to Older Adults: Strategies Programming Ideas for Older Adults in the Modern Age Enhancing Technology Accessibility for Older Adults Community Outreach: Serving Outside the Library Specialty Collections Items Continuing the Library’s Relationship with an Aging Population While many times libraries tend to allocate budget and funding to flashier, brighter programs aimed at a more youthful audiences, this book shows how and why that same enthusiasm should be applied to crafting an engaging senior services plan. Gone are the conventional days of bingo and knitting circles; while those programs certainly have their place, this books aims to show that seniors also crave fun experiences alongside opportunities to make their own lives easier and more stress free-- and to illuminates how libraries can strike this balance by offering an enriching senior services roster.
Download or read book On the Go with Senior Services written by Phyllis Goodman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only does this book offer insights into how to better serve all seniors, but it also provides complete step-by-step instructions for dozens of exciting and engaging programs that can be held both onsite and offsite. While serving the senior population is a standard service in public libraries, it has traditionally focused on in-house programs and homebound services. On the Go with Senior Services is different. With this inspiring and practical guide, your library can rejuvenate its in-house services with new programs and also take them on the road—to retirement and assisted living communities, adult day care programs, and nursing homes and rehab centers. With such diversity in the senior population, this book describes strategies for designing senior programs that fit your community's needs. It offers a trove of templates for programs that range from crafts, word games, pop culture, pets, holidays, humor, mysteries, technology, and music. It offers tips and suggestions on how to interact with seniors, including those who may have a variety of physical and cognitive needs. There are also guidelines for working with individuals suffering from dementia. A robust list of further resources is provided. The growing population of seniors presents librarians with new challenges and opportunities, and this book is a valuable guide to navigating and embracing them.
Download or read book Inside the Apple written by Michelle Nevius and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively and comprehensive, Inside the Apple brings to life New York's fascinating past. This narrative history of New York City is the first to offer practical walking tour know-how. Fast-paced but thorough, its bite-size chapters each focus on an event, person, or place of historical significance. Rich in anecdotes and illustrations, it whisks readers from colonial New Amsterdam through Manhattan's past, right up to post-9/11 New York. The book also works as a historical walking-tour guide, with 14 self-guided tours, maps, and step-by-step directions. Easy to carry with you as you explore the city, Inside the Apple allows you to visit the site of every story it tells. This energetic, wide-ranging, and often humorous book covers New York's most important historical moments, but is always anchored in the city of today.
Download or read book Library Services to the Incarcerated written by Sheila Clark and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for librarians whose responsibilities include serving the incarcerated, either as full-time jail or prison librarians, or as public librarians who provide outreach services to correctional facilities. The authors show how you can apply the public library model to inmate populations, and discuss facilities and equipment, collection development, services and programming; computers and the Internet; managing human resources, including volunteers and inmate workers; budgeting and funding; and advocacy within the facility and in the community.
Download or read book 50 Library Services written by Diantha Dow Schull and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wisdom and insight contained in this book can help make the library a center for positive aging.
Download or read book The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy written by Robert K. Krick and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No military unit in all the annals of American history exceeds in reputation Robert E. Lee's illustrious Army of Northern Virginia. In ten chapters based on exhaustive research, esteemed Civil War scholar Robert K. Krick gives eloquent examination to aspects of the army ranging from biographical sketches and the best and worst books on the subject, to Confederate troop strengths and locating soldier records. He begins with two key events: Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson's mortal wounding at Chancellorsville; and Jackson's most famous quarrel with a subordinate, which resulted in the unsuccessful court martial of General Richard B. Garnett. Krick continues with chapters on James Longstreet's failure at Knoxville and the prickly relationship between Jubal A. Early and the undisciplined Valley Cavalry. His piece on Robert E. Rodes is the first complete portrait of Lee's best division commander, whose wife methodically burned all of his letters sent home, forever preventing a full-scale biography. Krick, however, has uncovered a wide array of unpublished material on Rodes to sketch him in fresh perspective. Another essay considers the life and career of Colonel R. Welby Carter - a rogue
Download or read book Hail Mary written by Frankie de la Cretaz and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking story of the National Women’s Football League, and the players whose spirit, rivalries, and tenacity changed the legacy of women’s sports forever. In 1967, a Cleveland promoter recruited a group of women to compete as a traveling football troupe. It was conceived as a gimmick—in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters—but the women who signed up really wanted to play. And they were determined to win. Hail Mary chronicles the highs and lows of the National Women’s Football League, which took root in nineteen cities across the US over the course of two decades. Drawing on new interviews with former players from the Detroit Demons, the Toledo Troopers, the LA Dandelions, and more, Hail Mary brings us into the stadiums where they broke records, the small-town lesbian bars where they were recruited, and the backrooms where the league was formed, championed, and eventually shuttered. In an era of vibrant second wave feminism and Title IX activism, the athletes of the National Women’s Football League were boisterous pioneers on and off the field: you’ll be rooting for them from start to finish.
Download or read book Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dementia written by Helle Arendrup Mortensen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Extension of the Library Services and Construction Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Resource Book for Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons written by Joanne Locke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.
Download or read book Oversight Hearings on Library Services and Construction Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 5 Star Programming and Services for Your 55 Library Customers written by Barbara T. Mates and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2003-02-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the population approaches 55 and above, libraries are faced with an opportunity to serve an underserved population. In this handbook, Barbara Mates explains the ins and outs of planning, developing, marketing and finding successful programmes and services for the greying population.
Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1981 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 2008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-10 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library Services and Construction Act Amendments 1966 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Select Subcommittee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Older Americans Community Service Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 276, to amend Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize HEW to establish Older Americans Community Service Programs to enable the elderly to remain productive and active in community service organizations.
