Job Sites for Older Adults

Gloria Coles also told me about this recent NY Times article.

A New Breed of Tech for the Aging

"As the boomer generation moves toward retirement, companies are stepping up with innovative aids."

Gloria Coles of Libraries for the Future sent me this link from BusinessWeek Online and AARP .

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Tufts University

Nancy Alcorn, formerly of Newburyport Public Library, now Adult Services Librarian at Albuquerque (NM) Public Library, sent me this information to share:

It's been a while, but I continue to think of my former MA library colleagues often, and I do try to keep up with now "out-of-state" websites, blogs - including NMRLS - and other online reading as best I can.

Thought you might be interested in these lifelong learning/continuing education links and their course offerings, around which the University of New Mexico structures a continuing education "senior college" - and to think that the Osher Institute originated at the University of Southern Maine, and is now country wide, definitely an interest- and need-driven situation! Perhaps they would be of interest to your Access eXchange readers.

http://www.usm.maine.edu/olli/national/about.jsp

http://www.usm.maine.edu/olli/national/

And, I was wondering who in Albuquerque was reading the blog!
I've added the Tufts link to the Lifelong Access web site. I'd love to hear what you're all doing.

MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures BreakThrough Award

Nominations are open for creative organizations that use the know-how and can-do of Americans over 50 to meet society’s biggest needs.

The BreakThrough Award is sponsored by Civic Ventures – a think tank and incubator generating ideas and inventing programs to help society achieve the greatest return on experience – and is funded by the MetLife Foundation.

Deadline: February 1, 2007

EqualAccess Grants Conference Calls

Interested in expanding programs for health consumers, Boomers/older adults, and/or youth in your community? This is a reminder that EqualAccess LSTA grant applications are due on January 19, 2007.

The remaining two informational conference calls about the EqualAccess program and application process are being held on Wednesday, January 3, 2007, at 2 p.m. for interested WMRLS, CMRLS, and SEMLS libraries and on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at 2 p.m. for interested MMRLS, BMRLS, and NMRLS libraries. (Just email Eleanor Stafford, the MA EqualAccess Program Manager, at eleanor.stafford@state.ma.us if you need to join us on an alternate day.)

To access a conference call, please call 866-679-8413 and type in passcode 6444188. If you have difficulty joining the call, call 617-725-1860 for assistance. (Note: These conference call access numbers are different from those you received in the EqualAccess
mailing.)

To download copies of EqualAccess application and program materials, including the LSTA fact sheet, go to:
http://ea.webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=14525 or email Eleanor Stafford at eleanor.stafford@state.ma.us