Designing adult services : strategies for better serving your community / Ann Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Ann, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries and community--United States.

Libraries and community.

Adult services librarians--United States.

Adult services librarians.

Libraries and older people--United States.

Libraries and older people.

Adult services in public libraries--United States.

Adult services in public libraries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Westport, CT : Greenwood, 2009.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Planning for library services to adults

Know thy library and thy community

Evaluating programs and services

Staff competencies in library services to adults

Professional development

Waiting in the wings age group: 19-24

"Adultolescents"

Attitudes toward libraries

College/career prep

Just for fun programs

Taking center stage age group: 25-30

Library usage for this age group

Finding a place in life

Caregiving

Makers and hackers

Home, career, and coupling

Settling down age group: 30-40

Library services to the newly settled

Family, career, family

Library services for children

Family literacy

Midlife crisis-or not! age group: 40-55

Work, work, work

Stuck in the "sandwich"

Libraries caring for the caregivers

Empty nesters

Career changers

An end in sight age-or not! group: 55-65

Planning for the second phase of life

Financial planning for retirement

Grandparenting

"Now or never" programming

Now I can finally relax-or not! age group 65-75

Active seniors

Senior programs in libraries

Lifelong learning

Volunteering

Giving something back age group: 75 and beyond

Library services to older adults

In-home library services

Books by mail

Assistive technology

Reflection and journaling

Highlighting local history

Library services to special populations

Changes in demographics

Immigrant populations

Serving the incarcerated

Mental health issues in libraries

Inclusive programs and services

Conclusion

Library services throughout the lifespan

Serving the entire community.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400639388

9798216073345

9781440852558

1440852553

OCLC:

1006531813