[CLClist] Services to Older Adults Roundtable (SOAR)

[Kirsten Kilbourn]

Excuse cross postings.

Don't miss Thursday's meeting of the:

Services to Older Adults Roundtable (SOAR):
Chair: Doug Lord, CT State Lib.

Middletown Library Service Center
Directions - http://www.cslib.org/facmlsc.htm
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
10:00 - Meeting
Register online - http://www.ctlibrarians.org/events/register.html

Topic - panel discussion by Connecticut Homebound Services librarians
sharing best practices

Join the Services to Older Adult Roundtable on Thursday, March 27 at the
Middletown Library Service Center. The roundtable will feature a panel of
Connecticut homebound services librarians sharing best practices. Bring your
questions, ideas, and chat with folks who have been there, done that.
Panelists will include:

Kristine Dyson, from Washington's Gunn Memorial Library
(http://www.gunnlibrary.org/index.html) Gunn Your Mind project
(http://ct.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=13914)

Mary Fiorelli, Director of Old Lyme's P.G. Noyes Library (
http://www.oldlyme.lioninc.org/) and the Homebound Services project

Peggy Frank, Mansfield Public Library's (http://www.biblio.org/mansfield/) 
Senior Outreach Services (S.O.S. -
http://ct.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=10910)

Lisa Sprague, Enfield Public Library's
(http://www.enfield-ct.gov/content/91/109/5402.aspx/) Words on Wheels
project (http://ct.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=13914)

Douglas Lord (chair) will recap both the inaugural meeting of the
Connecticut Mental Health and Aging Coalition and the 'Embracing the
Challenge: Mental Health and Aging' conference. There will be fun, games,
prizes, handouts, bibliographies, trophies, refreshments, balloons, and
much, much more!  

Suggestions for this and other, upcoming meetings are welcomed: Email your
ideas and suggestions to the chair Douglas Lord at dlord at cslib.org.

Register online - http://www.ctlibrarians.org/events/register.html

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Kirsten Kilbourn - Part-time Project Coordinator 
Connecticut Library Consortium
234 Court Street, Middletown, CT 06457
860-344-8777 ext. 104, fax 860-344-9199
www.ctlibrarians.org