ASLCA/KLAS/NOD Award Goes To “Libraries and Autism: We’re Connected”
by Kathleen Hegarty, Chair, ASCLA Awards Committee At the ALA Midwinter Conference, the ASCLA Awards Committee selected as the winner of the ASCLA/KLAS/NOD Award “Libraries and Autism: We’re Connected,” a remarkable project developed by Margaret Kolaya, director of the Scotch Plains Public Library, and Daniel Weiss, director of the Fanwood Memorial Library, both in New...
“Senior Spaces,” the Library Place for Baby Boomers and Older Adults
By Allan M. Kleiman, Chief Consultant, Library Consultant(s)-on-Call, Old Bridge Public Library The “silver tsunami,” is near! The population throughout the United States aged sixty and older is projected to grow substantially in the near future as the baby boomer generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) reach retirement age. In 2000 there were 1,443,800...