[Libs-Or] New book at the State Library: Designing Adult Services

[Ross Fuqua]

This new book is available for interlibrary loan from the State Library of Oregon. It is part of the Library and Information Science Collection<http://osl-lis.blogspot.com/>, which is supported in whole by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act.
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Roberts, Ann. Designing Adult Services: Strategies for Better Serving Your Community<https://osl-lis.blogspot.com/2017/12/designing-adult-services-strategies-for.html>. Libraries Unlimited, 2018. ISBN: 9781440852541.

Publisher's Description:

Focusing on adult patrons ages 19 through senior citizens, this book explains how libraries can best serve this busy 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.

Features


*       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

If you would like to request this or other materials from the State Library of Oregon please use your library's established interlibrary loan process (e.g. OCLC or ALA request form). Otherwise, send your full name, the name of your library, complete title information, shipping address, and a phone number to the document delivery department at library.request at state.or.us<mailto:library.request at state.or.us> or (fax) 503-588-7119. Items will be checked out to your library, not to you personally, for 4 weeks (print materials) or 2 weeks (videos). Materials will be delivered via mail or Orbis Cascade Alliance Courier, and you may return them the same way. Normally a single copy is purchased and is loaned on a first-come-first-serve basis. You may be put on a hold list for several weeks.

Most library staff are able to use their library's interlibrary loan service to borrow professional development material. However, if you do not have access to these services or are not currently affiliated with a library, please contact me<mailto:ross.fuqua at state.or.us> to discuss alternative options for borrowing the material.

Be sure to check out our Library and Information Science (LIS) blog<http://osl-lis.blogspot.com/> to discover the most recent additions to our LIS collection and search our catalog<https://ccrls.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/oslpublic/> for our complete holdings. The library science collection is meant to support the whole Oregon library community. Library Support and Development Services welcomes your suggestions for acquisitions - see the blog for an input form or email us!

Ross Fuqua
Data & Federal Programs Consultant
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