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Additional Links for Libraries Serving Older Adults
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BOOM! The 50+ Transition Center at the New Haven Free Public Library
The New Haven Free Public Library's 50+ Transition Center is in the vanguard of efforts across the nation moving away from programs that focus on the homebound or the frail elderly and instead strive to include a youngish-older adult crowd.
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Designing Older Adult Space in Libraries
A short presentation on design features helpful for making a library welcoming for older adults.
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Ledyard Libraries Expand Services to Senior Citizens
Ledyard’s Bill Library and Gales Ferry Library bring people, books together.
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Model Service to Older Adults - New Haven Free Public Library
Find out what New Haven is doing to attract older adults to their library.
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Old Lyme's Phoebe Noyes Griffin Library older adults LSTA grant project
This article reviews 'best practices' of Old Lyme's Phoebe Noyes Griffin Library's LSTA project that focused on homebound older adults during the 2006-2007 grant cycle.
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Public Library Directors Roundtable Northwest presentation
This is a PowerPoint presentation and related materials made to the Connecticut Library Consortium's Public Library Directors Roundtable Northwest in September, 2008 at the University of Connecticut's Torrington campus.
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Rhode Island OA powerpoint
This is the powerpoint to a best practices presentation made to Rhode Island librarians on March 25, 2009 in Exeter, RI.
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Russell Library and Free-Choice Learning
The Russell Library in Middletown is serving mobile older adults with an array of materials and programs, including a Lunch & Learn series for nearly 6,000 residents aged 65 and over; just under $20,000 in LSTA funds was awarded to this project last year.
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S.O.S. - Senior Outreach Services at the Mansfield Public Library
This program provided residents of three living facilities in Mansfield with convenient access to informational and recreational materials and programs tailored to promote lifelong learning. The project also established a homebound delivery service.
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SOAR Meeting Minutes, May 19, 2009
Meeting minutes kindly submitted by the Services to Older Adults Roundtable co-chair Susan Hansen, director of West Hartford's Bishop's Corner Branch.
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Successful LSTA-funded Programs for Older Adults
Read about how these LSTA-funded library programs have helped improve library servies to older adults.
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Top 20 Ways of Serving Older Adults
A list by Allan M. Kleiman as appearing in 'Library Services to the Sandwich Generation and Serial Caregivers,' comp. by Linda Lucas Walling.
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Websites and Internet Resources on Services to Older Adults
A list of external links.
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