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5-star programming and services for your 55+ library customers

2003

Format:	Book
Author:	Mates, Barbara T.
Title:	5-star programming and services for your 55+ library customers / Barbara T. Mates.
Other Title:	Five star programming and services for your fifty-five plus library customers
Publisher, Date:	Chicago : American Library Association, 2003.
Description:	xii, 154 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Summary:	This resource gets to the heart of what seniors need and want - from continuing education to recreation - and how to reach out to homebound seniors. Packed with ideas for films and music, computers and the Web, reminiscing programs, reading, using adaptive and assistive devices, and more, this is the one-stop guide for serving the needs of library customers as they move into the second half of life!
Series:	ALA programming guides.
Subjects:	Adult services in public libraries -- United States. Libraries and older people -- United States.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-120) and index.
Contents:	Who are all these older people and where do they live? -- Special needs within the older generation -- Staff and seniors -- Programming for seniors -- Older adults and reading -- Outreach library programming -- Computers and seniors -- Seniors and accessible websites -- Preparing and distributing marketing and informational materials for senior programs -- Funding seniors programs.
LCCN:	2002151504
ISBN:	0838908438
OCLC:	50859314
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Outreach specialist Mates, recipient of the prestigious Francis Joseph Campbell Award in 2001 for her work as head of the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and her book Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All (ALA, 2000), has issued another excellent guide. Writing for public librarians serving an increasingly graying population, she begins her practical manual with a basic discussion of the aging process, the special needs within the older adult population, and staff attitudes. She then offers suggestions for in-house library programming, media and collection development, outreach programming, and using computer technology with seniors. In each case Mates discusses policies, procedures, and real examples. Her purchase recommendations range from commonplace broad-tip pens to read-aloud anthologies to computer screen reading software. Chapters on promotion and funding of services, coupled with two excellent appendixes of web resources, make Mates's guide particularly useful for novice staffers. Twenty-eight exemplary library programs are profiled in a third appendix, "Proven Five-Star Senior Programming Initiatives." Recommended for all public libraries.-Rhea Joyce Rubin, Independent Lib. Consultant, Oakland (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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