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RQ1: How are public libraries addressing popular interest in everyday heritage?

25 Ideas to Serve Active Older Adults… Compiled by Allan M. Kleiman, Chair, ALA RUSA RSS Library Service to an Aging Population Committee 3. Start an Oral History Project on Community Life … 4. Celebrated Veterans Day with Oral History Events… 5. Develop Inter-Generational Genealogy Projects

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RQ1: How are public libraries addressing popular interest in everyday heritage?

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  1. 25 Ideas to Serve Active Older Adults… Compiled by Allan M. Kleiman, Chair, ALA RUSA RSS Library Service to an Aging Population Committee 3. Start an Oral History Project on Community Life … 4. Celebrated Veterans Day with Oral History Events… 5. Develop Inter-Generational Genealogy Projects 7. Host a Program during Older Americans Month for the 5 Oldest Community Residents 10. Host a Book Discussion Program on Best Sellers of the 1960’s and 1970’s 15. Develop ‘fun’ Programming for Baby Boomers, like, ‘Remembering the Beatles’ 21. Encourage the Local Historical Society to Partner with the Library on Programming Cyberorganizing everyday heritage in and around public libraries: An exploratory study in Illinois RQ1: How are public libraries addressing popular interest in everyday heritage? RQ2: How can cyberorganizing enhance these services?

  2. Table 1: Demographic profile of down-state participants Chicago: 16 participants • Who came to the workshops?? • Middle-class older adults • Over-representation of white, more educated women without children in the home • How to build on this base of popular interest? Kankakee: 18 participants Champaign-Urbana Danville: 20 participants Carbondale: 16 participants

  3. RQ1: How are public libraries addressing popular interest in everyday heritage?

  4. RQ2: How can cyberorganizing enhance services?

  5. Bringing people together can spark change! Let’s do more of it!! Want to hear more? Lenstra, Noah. 2014. Cyberorganizing Everyday Heritage in and around Public Libraries: An Exploratory Study in Illinois. Public Library Quarterly. 33(1).

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