With fall is approaching quickly and summer reading wrapped up for the year, let’s take a look at programming for older adults. Libraries provide programming for all ages and there are special issues with each age group. Older adults may have more flexible time, but may have issues with declining health, mobility and dementia, creating very different needs for them as a patron group. How do you reach out to your older community and provide services they can use?

LM is highlighting topical Library Science titles from our collection in occasional emails. Here are selected titles on services for older adults purchased recently. You can search MeLCat for LM titles and you can also check our New Library Science Collection titles at https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/libraries/libsci. Click on the ANSWER catalog link and use “Library Science Collection” as one of the search terms in the Advanced Search – Notes field and you will pull only the library science collection titles.

REMINDER: Titles are available through interlibrary loan only right now, as our MeLCat delivery is temporarily offline while we prepare to move to a new catalog. You can find the information on interlibrary loan borrowing from the Library of Michigan here - https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/about/libuseguidelines/guideforlibraries/interlibrary-loan-guidelines. The page references state employees, but libraries may also borrow from the collection through interlibrary loan. Please feel free to contact me if you have any issues getting a title.

Services for Older Adults titles:

• On the go with senior services : library programs for any time and any place / Phyllis Goodman / Libraries Unlimited, 2020.
• Library dementia services : how to meet the needs of the Alzheimer's community / Timothy J. Dickey / Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
• Supporting people to live well with dementia : a guide for library services / Sarah McNicol / Facet Publishing, 2023.
• Public library programs and services for midlife and beyond : expanding opportunities for a growing population / Reneé K. Bennett-Kapusniak / Libraries Unlimited, 2018.
• Senior services today : a practical guide for librarians / Ashley Brooks / Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
• Designing adult services : strategies for better serving your community / Ann Roberts / Libraries Unlimited, 2018.

The Library Science Collection at LM is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Have a title you’d like us to purchase? Let me know!

Karren Reish

Library Grants Coordinator

Library of Michigan

517-241-0021,  www.michigan.gov/lsta

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