Becoming a Dementia Friendly Library
560,000 Floridians are currently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. This number is expected to rise to 720,000 by 2025. People living with other forms of dementia add to these numbers. While some people move to residential care facilities, most of those affected live at home...
More Ways Your Library Can Partner With the Federal Trade Commission
Libraries provide more advice and services to a broader array of people. Do you serve new arrivals or people with challenges reading English? What about teens or older people? Military families? Everyone is a consumer -- and crooks use clever schemes to defraud...
Memory Cafés and Libraries: How to Start and Sustain Dementia Inclusiveness in Library Settings
Memory cafés are proliferating around the world and in the U.S., many libraries have joined the memory café movement to give people having dementia and their care partner’s regular opportunities for socialization and enjoyable, meaningful, engaging activities.This...
All About Audiobooks
Discover why audiobooks have become so popular and how to best serve your patrons in a two-fold presentation. First, learn how to build a collection, utilize selection tools, and understand the unique traits that determine the quality of an audiobook, going beyond the...
Adult Cooking Programs in the Library: Make it Happen
Eating together creates connections and fosters community. When aligned with the importance of promoting healthy living, it is only natural that the public library would provide classes in food preparation as part of a healthy lifestyle. The Maitland Public Library...
Attracting Today’s Volunteers to the Library
Handout Handout Handout Handout Handout Handout Handout Volunteerism is changing. Libraries now have the opportunity to engage highly skilled volunteers who can bring their unique expertise to bear on the library’s mission. Actual success stories of...
Teaching Library Customers How To Manage Their Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter Information Streams
Social media can be a useful tool for keeping in touch with family and friends, smart shopping, researching political ideas, planning vacations, and staying on top of emergency information from their local government. But too many library customers abandon social...
Getting to Know and Meeting the Needs of Generation Z
Born between 1997 and 2012, Generation Z is starting to come of age. Researchers are identifying defining traits of this generation that have a direct impact on library services, instruction, and programming. In this interactive and informative session, Lauren will...
More Than 20 Creative and Fun Ideas to Welcome and Delight Your Users in 60 Minutes
Want to spice up your public or academic library with some creative ideas that not only look good, but could also save you time, lower your stress and bring some fun into your workplace?Recently, powerfulmind.co published an article about some of the surprising...
Developing an Outreach Program for Your Library
You have been assigned the task of creating an outreach plan for your library. Whether you have been in your position for a period of time or you are brand new to your library, this can be a momentous task. Where do you begin? How can you have the greatest impact?In...
I Spy: Intellectual Freedom Issues at Your Library
Libraries have embraced technologies such as ILS, security cameras and social media, along with patron conveniences such as self-check out, open hold shelves, and Internet computers. But do these conveniences jeopardize our core value of patron privacy--the right to...
Our Public Library, Public School Partnership: The Power of YES
In Conneaut Ohio, our local public school asked us to help facilitate library services in the high school. We said yes. This “yes” is a far cry from our typical school “yes” of field trips, assemblies, and classroom collections.This “yes” included ILS, acquisitions...
Marketing Your Programs and Services to Millennials
Despite using the library more than generations before them, Millennials and Gen Z remain difficult to reach through traditional forms of library marketing. If they didn’t grow up in the library or have kids of their own, we probably aren’t seeing them in our...
Moving Your Services into Your Community
We’ve heard the refrains of eliminating the reference desk, embedded librarians, and the like. We also hear of the need to get out into our communities. Yet meeting our community members where they are – not where we are – is still a challenge. If we are free...
Learning in the Library Through Experiences
Libraries are places where people engage in experiences, such as those created by makerspaces, storytime, gaming, and cooking classes. For library users to get the most out of these services and resources, underpinning the offerings with the theory of experiential...
The Future of Libraries: Exploring Lifelong Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Entrepreneurship Training
With lifelong learning at the center of much of what we foster in contemporary libraries, we can sometimes be overwhelmed by the flood of information about developments, trends, and challenges that help shape our possible futures. Without a grounding in...
Assuring Library Materials Can Be Used by Your Community
Having materials in a library's collection is good; having those materials in the formats needed by the library's community is much better. The act of supplying content in the formats that community members require is critically important to meeting their information...
Helping Your Patrons with Identity Theft
Do you have patrons that need help with identity theft? A recent report from Equifax stated that someone’s identity is now stolen every 2 seconds! In this informative program learn more about IdentityTheft.gov, the federal government’s free, one-stop resource...
A Design Thinking Approach to Encore Career Exploration: Help Your 50+ Patrons (or Yourself) Discover the Next Act
Your webinar will be held on June 26, 2018, 10:30 am - 11:30 am ET. Login here: http://connectpro85922111.adobeconnect.com/rrecskscrbrb/ After the webinar, please complete our Training Survey and provide your feedback on the session. Within 7 days, the recording of...
Dealing with Opiate Users in the Library: From Behavior Management to Overdosers
In 2015, more Americans died from drug overdose than from car accidents and gun homicides combined, and more than six out of 10 of those overdoses involved an opioid. Preliminary data for 2016 suggests that drug overdose deaths for that year rose by about 19%—the...