PBS Series Life Part 2

Hi--

We have just recently purchased the PBS Series Life Part 2.

"Life (Part 2) is an innovative PBS series by and about the whopping 26% of the American population who are 55 and older (and you know who you are)."
www.pbs.org/lifepart2

We purchased the series with public performance rights so that we can develop programming around the discussion topics.

I was wondering (rather than recreate the wheel) if another Library has done the same and was willing to share discussion materials that they created? and possibly their results?

If you are not aware of the series take a look at the PBS website. The URL is listed above. In fact, I never saw the series when it aired but discovered it in a PBS catalog that I recently received. It's really great!

Either post here to the list with comments or contact me directly.

Chat with you soon.

Thanks,
--Allan
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Allan M. Kleiman, MLS
Assistant Library Director
"Senior Spaces" Project Manager
Old Bridge Public Library
1 Old Bridge Public Library, Municipal Center
Old Bridge, NJ 08857
Tel: 732-721-5600, ext. 5042
E-Mail: kleiman@aol.com; or
akleiman@oldbridgelibrary.org
www.libraryolderadults.blogspot.com
www.seniorspaces.blogspot.com
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Member, ALA OLOS Library Service to Older Adult Task Force
President, NJLA Special Populations Section
Chair, INFOLINK Diversity Committee
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"I'm Glad That I'm Not Young Anymore!"

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Senior Fridays: February 2008

SENIOR FRIDAYS
Free Events for Older Adults
Fridays @ 1:30pm
Learn, Create, Sit-Back and Enjoy!

February 1: Surprise Movie!
Come and watch the movie, chat with your neighbors, and make some Valentine Cards to send to Old Bridge Seniors.

February 8: Talk & Discussion—Reverse Mortgages
Are they for you?, presented by Tony Bunn, USA Financial Services

February 15: Talk, Discussion & Video
Happy 100th Birthday Ethel Merman, presented by
Allan M. Kleiman, librarian

February 22: Talk & Discussion—Washington’s Spies
A look at the spies of the American revolution; especially George Washington Spymaster, presented by Ellen O’Brien, librarian

February 29: Talk & Discussion: Old Time Radio
Listen to and discuss some of our favorites from the golden age of
radio, presented by Ellen O’Brien, librarian

No Registration Required--Light Refreshments Will be Served

“Senior Spaces”
Old Bridge Public Library
1 Old Bridge Plaza, Municipal Center
Route 516 and Cottrell Road
732-721-5600, ext. 5033
www.oldbridgelibrary.org
www.seniorspaces.blogspot.com

These programs are made possible under contract with INFOLINK and the a grant from the NJ State Library

Senior Fridays: January 2008

SENIOR FRIDAYS
Free Events for Older Adults
Fridays @ 1:30pm
Learn, Create, Sit-back and Enjoy!

January 4: Talk & Discussion
"Still Kicking," and "Aging Gracefully," led by
Ellen O'Brien and Allan M. Kleiman, Librarians

January 11: Talk & Discussion
"Explore Natural New Jersey,"
Jim Peck, Head of Outreach, Mid-Atlantic Branch,
American Littoral Society

January 18: Talk & Discussion
"The Poetry of Rita Dove," led by
Allan M. Kleiman, Librarian

January 25: Talk, Discussion & Online Workshop
"Looking for Your Family Tree," led by
Allan M. Kleiman, Librarian

No registration required--Light refreshments Will be Served

"Senior Spaces is made possible by a contract from INFOLINK and from a grant from the NJ State Library."

"Senior Spaces"
Old Bridge Public Library
1 Old Bridge Plaza, Municipal Center
Route 516 and Cottrell Road
732-721-5600, ext. 5033
www.oldbridgelibrary.org

Senior Fridays: December 2007

SENIOR FRIDAYS: DECEMBER 2007 @ THE OLD BRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY

"Learn, create, sit-back and enjoy!" each Friday at 1:30pm at the Old Bridge Public Library's Central Branch.

The "Senior Spaces" Project announces the following programs scheduled for December:

December 14: Talk & Discussion
"Healthy Eating--Healthy Living"
Dr. Sandra Fahmy, DO
Sponsored by Raritan Bay Medical Center

December 21: Music and Song
"Red, White and Blue: George M. Cohan, Kate Smith & Bob Hope,"
presented by Fred Miller

December 28: Video Gaming for Older Adults
"Do You Wii? Wii do!"
Come and bring your friends and let's play the Guitar Hero III,
Brain Age Academy, Wii Bowling and more!

No registration required. Light refreshments will be served.

Senior Fridays are just one part of the library's "Senior Spaces" project funded through a contract with INFOLINK: The Eastern NJ Regional Library Cooperative and a grant from the NJ State Library.

The Central Branch of the Old Bridge Public Library is located at 1 Old Bridge Plaza, Municipal Center at the corner of Route 516 and Cottrell Road.

For information about these "Senior Spaces" Programs and for other Library information, call us at: 732-721-5600, ext. 5033.

Pennsylvania Library Association

Greetings--

I just got back from State College, PA--and the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Library Association.

My presentation on "Senior Spaces" was presented to a crowd of over 100! And several people came up to me in the halls before I left to let me know that I was quite on target. Now--how to get the information out to the 49 other states.

The infolink.org/seniorspaces web site continues to have more and more content added to it each day and I would like to commend and thank Mi-Sun Lyu for the great job that she did with it. It looks great!

The powerpoint from the presentation is being posted both here and on the Infolink website.

We would like to heat from you about what you think about our project as we re-invent library service to the baby boomers and older adults from the ground up.

Hope to hear from you soon,
Allan

"Senior Spaces" Update

Hi--

It's been a bit since I last added anything to this blog. I have been working with Mi-Sun Lyu, of Infolink on the new web page that will be premiering next week.

Here you will find a lot more detail about our "seniors spaces" project and more. I hope that you will look for it at: www.infolink.org/seniorspaces.

Several things have happened in the "space" in the last few weeks.

We had our first "official" Advisory Board Meeting in September and have our next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, October 9th. We are going to work on a survey with the Advisory Board to get some feedback on "programming" and the direction that should take.

Ellen O'Brien has become our very part-time "Senior Spaces" Librarian. Ellen has been a substitute librarian with the Library for the past year--now she has become a part-time Adult and Information Services Librarian. She will be working with me in the "senior spaces" area each Thursday and Friday. Today she developed the discussion piece for the film that we used on "The Homefront," during World War II. I thought that this month should have a 1940's theme to tie-in with Ken Burns' The War, showing on PBS. It went very well!

We spent yesterday and today developing and plotting out some programming ideas for the months to come. One of the new additions to our programming will be the planning of a Thursday night series aimed at the Baby Boomer generation.

Do you Wii? It is set to debut on Thursday, November 7th. We are working with out Teen Librarian, Theresa Wordelmann on that project. She is recruiting teen volunteers to assist
in training our older adults to use Wii. We also have several librarians with gaming experience and are tapping into their expertise and enthusiasm in getting this off the ground. At the moment we have 2 Wii consoles and plan to expand in the next coming months.

Last week, Ruthie Maslin, from the Lexington KY Public Library was our visitor. We gave her the Old Bridge tour, she had a chance to observe one of our Friday programs and tour "senior spaces." Soon you will be able to visit virtually from the Infolink website.

During the last two months we "tweeked" the room's arrangement to make some things flow better and now have an entire space devoted to "special needs." We would like to expand that through programming and developing a collection to meet those needs as well.

I am off next week to make a presentation for the Pennsylvania Library Association at their annual conference on "Senior Spaces" and then later in the week I am talking at the NY/NJ Chapter of MLA on Serving Baby Boomers and then off later in the month to Monterey, CA to speak at Internet Librarian on social networking and older adults. What a monthful!

Well, that's it for now. I promise this week to post most of my past presentations to both my own site at: libraryolderadults.blogspot.com and to the infolink.org/seniorspaces site. So look for them there. The more we share the more that will happen.

As always, you can find me at: Old Bridge Public Library, 732-721-5600, ext. 5042 or akleiman@oldbridgelibrary.org.

Chat with you soon,
Allan

Hi--

We continue to receive favorable reviews for our "Senior Spaces" area. This past week we had a feature article in the Middlesex County section of the Star Ledger.

Here is the link to the article:

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/middlesextowns/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1186029148304850.xml&coll=1

Here is the article as it appeared in the newspaper:

'Living room' and 'listening area' are hits at library

Thursday, August 02, 2007

BY ALLISON STEELE

Star-Ledger Staff

Senior citizens competing in Nintendo tournaments while teenagers read in the next room -- that's what the future of the Old Bridge Public Library looks like.

The library is undergoing a transformation aimed at bringing in people of all ages, thanks to $20,000 in grants from the state and the Eastern New Jersey Library Cooperative.

In the next few months, the library will become home to "Senior Spaces," a pilot program for the state designed to make the library a more inviting place for baby boomers, their parents and their children. The additions include a television and DVD player, an area with rocking chairs and more computers.

The project was designed by Assistant Library Director Allan Kleiman, who has long felt that many adults think the library is only for children, students and senior citizens.

"The reality is, people like to find a space in the library that is geared to them, and is comfortable for them, and has materials geared toward them," he said.

Kleiman was awarded $10,000 from the Eastern New Jersey Library Cooperative to fund the project, money that the New Jersey State Library agreed to match.

The first phase of the project is already in place in Old Bridge. One section of the library has been converted into a "living room" with comfortable chairs, books and other materials for middle-aged patrons and their parents, with a row of rocking chairs where people may sit and chat.

In addition, Kleiman has created a "listening area" with a television and DVD player, as well as a phonograph that plays old records dating back to 1933. Another area will have computers and equip ment to serve the visually impaired.

The state grant will go towards creating an interactive classroom with computers and other equip ment, where people may learn technology-based skills such as how to use a digital camera. Klei man also intends to buy a Nin tendo Wii video game console, which he hopes would be useful to senior citizens. Recent studies have suggested older adults may improve their hand-eye coordination from playing video games, he said, and he hopes to eventually organize a tournament.

So far, Kleiman said the library's patrons have taken to the changes. He's seen teenagers playing DVDs and CDs, senior citizens have been bringing in their old records and everyone seems to like the rocking chairs.

"People have just adopted this like it was here all the time," he said. "It's become an instant part of the library."

Kathleen Peiffer, director of the development bureau of for the state library, said other libraries are watching this project with interest.

"He's set the template for a wonderful program," Peiffer said. "I can't wait to see other communities replicate this."

Allison Steele may be reached at asteele@starledger.com or (732) 404-8083.

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