[Baynet] Infopeople's "Library Services For Older Adults" workshop

[Linda Rodenspiel]

Since some people who may be interested in attending might not 
receive this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would 
print and post or route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks!


Title:  Library Services For Older Adults

Dates and locations:

Monday, April 2, San Francisco Public Library
Monday, April 23, Buena Park Library District
Monday, May 7, Fresno Woodward Park Library
Monday, May 21, Alameda County Library in Fremont
Monday, June 4, National City Public Library
Monday, June 18, Los Angeles Public Library
Monday, July 16, Riverside Public Library
Monday, July 30, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria

To register for this workshop:  Use the online registration form at
http://infopeople.org/workshop/319

Fee:  There is a $75.00 fee for this workshop.


--Are you looking at your customers and suddenly realizing you need 
to think about older adult services?
--Do you find yourself directing older adults to Internet 
workstations then leaving them to struggle on their own because you 
lack the time to give them the assistance they need due to other demands?
--Do you wonder what other needs your older population might have?
--Do you want to engage your older adult customers and utilize the 
energy and interest of this special population, but wonder where to begin?

The older adult population's needs are changing - even the name is 
new. We no longer view them as SENIORS. The Baby Boomers are retiring 
and want new services tailored to their needs.


Workshop Description: This all-day hands-on workshop will examine the 
characteristics of the older adult population and will teach you how 
to develop, market, and evaluate services tailored to the needs of 
this population group. You will learn how to form partnerships with 
other service agencies and how to harness the expertise of older 
adults themselves. Through individual and group exercises you will 
develop a service plan that reflects your older adult community. The 
instructor will provide sample plans, templates, cheat sheets, a 
webliography, as well as practical, useful tips that can be applied 
immediately. You will leave the workshop with the confidence to start 
a new older adult service and will take away concrete ideas to 
continue adding and increasing services to older adults.

Pre-workshop assignment: Each student is asked to bring at least one 
picture of an older adult to share with the class.

Preliminary Course Outline

Overview of Library Services to Older Adults
--Who is your target audience
--Services with potential
--Benefits and barriers of services

Planning and Developing Library Services
--Planning the service
--Using technology
--Including Older Adults
--Partnerships within your community
--Funding
--Think budget

Marketing the Service
--Staff and community considerations
--Marketing strategies
--Advertising techniques

Evaluation and the Real Deal
--Creating evaluation forms
--Start a new service
--Trouble shooting
--Importance of the Journal

Instructor:  Diane Satchwell.  Diane has been in public library 
service since the early 1980s. She started as a children's librarian 
in Orange County, California. She began working with older adults 
while the branch manager in the Rancho Santa Margarita Library. The 
library was opened in 1994 to a very exciting and demanding 
community. Older Adults became an important aspect of its success 
with book delivery to the home confined, volunteers in programming 
and instructional services, as well as a very successful Friends of 
the Library organization. May is Older Adult Month. Be ready to 
celebrate this important month with new services to an ever-growing 
and vibrant group of individuals. Learn the many types of library 
services and how technology adds to the versatility and delivery of 
services to the older adults within our communities.

Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with 
an interest in older adult Services is welcome. This course is for 
the individual with the enthusiasm and energy to start a new service 
to an exciting population.

Prerequisites: To be successful in this course, you should be 
comfortable and excited about new services to older adults.

Other Logistics:

*On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM;  instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM.

*Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the 
Infopeople Web site at 
http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions.  Infopeople does not 
validate or pay for parking.

*Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch.  Since some 
training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, 
Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch.

To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general 
information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main 
Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop

If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, 
please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at 
assist at infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685.