Redhaired Future Librarian

LISRadio

This week’s First Tuesday on LISRadio is really interesting. Dr. Seavey interviews Allan Kleiman, who travels around the country visiting libraries to talk about library service to older adults. You can find it here. I was on phones tonight, so I jotted down some notes while I was listening.

A question I wrote down was: “What are people doing now, pre-retirement, that libraries could do for them?” What needs will retired people have that libraries can fill? One obvious thing was family history/ memoir seminars. A lot of libraries are into geneaology, but this would be a more personal type of workshop. I recently lost my aunt, who was kind of the family historian. Imagine how such a workshop would have met her needs. Heck, she probably could have taught the thing!
Mr. Kleiman also talked about the needs of homeless and the poor, too. It was a really interesting show.