Late 1980s Outreach Soared to New Heights 65,000 Total Outreach Circulation 2 Bookmobiles 5 Full Time Employees Assigned to Outreach
Budget for Outreach Services Number of Library Vehicles Number of Employees
Annual Conference in October
Qualities for Outreach Employees flexible trustworthy reliable confident extravert
Social Work Library Outreach Services Health Care
While delivering books to a day care center on a very cold and rainy day, you observe a child wearing flip-flops. What would you do? Later that same cold and rainy day, you deliver books to an elderly woman and you discover that she does not have heat in her house. What would you do?
The library’s mission is to provide information and gateways to resources… …so that all citizens are able to meet their educational, recreational, social, and cultural needs.
Seniors Persons with Disabilities Low-income Families Outreach plays an important role in our ability to accomplish this mission of reaching all. Reaching the Unreached…
Deposit Collections Delivery and pick-up service for institutions, such as retirement homes.
Reaching the Unreached with New Partnerships Athens Community Council on Aging and Meals on Wheels
Kidmobile: Promoting Early Literacy
Kidmobile’s Special Collection
So, what are we able to do with one part-time position? 7,500 circulations 80 programs So far for the 2008 calendar year… January 2008 September 2008
Un- Cataloged Deposit Collections Public Health Departments & Centers Homeless Shelters Women’s &/or Children’s Shelters Unemployment Offices Courthouses, Parole Offices, Public Defender’s Offices Community Centers Arts Centers
Multiple copies Multi-format (Large Print / Paperbacks / Audio) Discussion Guides Extended Loan Periods Provide Book Talks and Discussion Leaders for Assisted Living, Nursing Homes and Senior Centers
In w/ the Old