Books by Ann Roberts

This book helps libraries identify and implement new ways to serve their physically or mentally disabled patients. Authors Ann Roberts and Dr. Richard Smith work at the state level with persons with disabilities.

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Focusing on adult patrons ages 19 through senior citizens, this book explains how libraries can best serve this portion of their community's population at different life stages and foster experiences that are "worth the trip"-whether actual or virtual.Adult library patrons are busier than ever before-working, taking classes and studying for advanced degrees, caring for children, helping their aging parents, taking care of their homes or rental properties, planning and nurturing careers, managing investments and retirement funds, and inevitably retiring. Each of these endeavors can require highly specific learning and education. Throughout their lives, adults continue to have different information needs that the library and its services can fill. Designing Adult Services: Strategies for Better Serving Your Community discusses the many ways libraries can serve adults of various ages and at different life stages, covering online services, collection development, programming, and lifelong learning.This guide's unique approach simplifies the processes of designing and carrying out a successful adult services program for adult library users in all the various stages of life. The book is organized by age groups, with the respective information needs and life challenges. Each chapter suggests programs, services, and collection development strategies for the life stages. Public library administrators and managers as well as adult services librarians in public libraries will find this guide a must-read.

The vibrant Phoenix art happening First Friday promises business and pleasure for Ari Adams. For one thing, moving on from the painful past she shared with Molly Nelson has brought a new woman into her life. But an old building with a body inside threatens the art community and implicates every member of the First Friday Council.Hired to investigate and guard the FFC's interests, Ari takes on the disquieting assignment at her boss's request. Secrets at the Veteran's Administration and human greed create a dangerous quagmire, and when the victim's identity and the names of her employers are revealed, Ari realizes she has no one she trusts to help her-except Molly.But working with Molly again would mean opening old wounds and risking the fresh start Ari thought that she wanted...A Grand Plan is the latest in the Golden Crown Literary Award-Winning Ari Adams Mystery series by best-selling and Lambda Nominated Author Ann Roberts.An Ari Adams Mystery Series Book 5.

Crash Course in Library Services for Seniors provides a refreshingly positive approach to working with older adults-one that focuses on the positive effects of aging on patrons, and the many opportunities that libraries can create for themselves by offering top-notch services delivered with a concierge mindset. The book offers page after page of great programming ideas specifically for reaching out to Baby Boomers and older customers-a population that is predicted to double over the next 20 years.Organized in only six chapters, this easy-to-read book provides practical suggestions for making any library a welcoming place for older adults, covering topics such as assessment, planning, programming, services, marketing, and evaluation. This title will be invaluable to public librarians interested in expanding and improving their current programming for older adults within their community, and for those looking to create entirely new programming for seniors.

Identifies some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa. This study examines those objects commissioned for and made by the nuns during the fifteenth century. It offers descriptions of and documentation for the process of patronage as it was practiced by cloistered women, and the making of art in such enclosures.

Discusses about becoming a stronger person. This title links directly to the Government's Birth to Three Matters Framework (DfES 2002).

For babies, learning is about exploring and finding things out for themselves. This book covers: making connections, being imaginative, being creative, and representing.

Showing that communication happens in a variety of ways, this series of books covers: being together, finding a voice, listening and responding, and making meaning. It aims to link to the Government's Birth to Three Matters Framework (DfES 2002). It also provides information and ideas for you to read and then implement or share with your team.

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