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Designing Adult Services - Strategies for Better Serving Your Community (Paperback)
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Designing Adult Services - Strategies for Better Serving Your Community (Paperback)
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Focusing on adult patrons ages 19 through senior citizens, this
book explains how libraries can best serve this portion of their
community's population at different life stages and foster
experiences that are "worth the trip"-whether actual or virtual.
Adult library patrons are busier than ever before-working, taking
classes and studying for advanced degrees, caring for children,
helping their aging parents, taking care of their homes or rental
properties, planning and nurturing careers, managing investments
and retirement funds, and inevitably retiring. Each of these
endeavors can require highly specific learning and education.
Throughout their lives, adults continue to have different
information needs that the library and its services can fill.
Designing Adult Services: Strategies for Better Serving Your
Community discusses the many ways libraries can serve adults of
various ages and at different life stages, covering online
services, collection development, programming, and lifelong
learning. This guide's unique approach simplifies the processes of
designing and carrying out a successful adult services program for
adult library users in all the various stages of life. The book is
organized by age groups, with the respective information needs and
life challenges. Each chapter suggests programs, services, and
collection development strategies for the life stages. Public
library administrators and managers as well as adult services
librarians in public libraries will find this guide a must-read.
Helps librarians make their libraries the go-to places in the
community for both information and recreation Enables librarians to
accurately analyze the demographics of their communities and
identify the services needed Offers simple suggestions to help
librarians with limited resources provide age-appropriate services
Describes information and resources most likely needed during each
life stage, making it easier to target the audience for both
programming and publicity
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