Late 1980s

Outreach Soared to New Heights• 65,000 Total Outreach Circulation• 2 Bookmobiles • 5 Full Time Employees Assigned to Outreach

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•Number of Employees

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While delivering books to a day care center on a very cold and rainy day, you observe a child wearing flip-flops.

What would you do?

Later that same cold and rainy day, you deliver books to an elderly woman and you discover that she does not have heat in her house. What would you do?

The library’s mission is to provide information and gateways to resources…

…so that all citizens are able to meet their educational, recreational, social, and cultural needs.

Seniors

Persons with Disabilities

Low-income Families

Outreach plays an important role in our ability to accomplish this mission of reaching all.

Reaching the Unreached…

Deposit Collections

Delivery and pick-up service for institutions, such as retirement homes.

Reaching the Unreached with New Partnerships

Athens Community Council on Agingand

Meals on Wheels

Kidmobile: Promoting Early Literacy

Kidmobile’s Special Collection

So, what are we able to do with one part-time position?

• 7,500 circulations

• 80 programs

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Public Health Departments & Centers

•Homeless Shelters

•Women’s &/or Children’s Shelters

•Unemployment Offices

•Courthouses, Parole Offices, Public Defender’s Offices

•Community Centers

•Arts Centers

Multiple copies

Multi-format (Large Print / Paperbacks / Audio)

Discussion Guides

Extended Loan Periods

Provide Book Talks and Discussion Leaders for

Assisted Living, Nursing Homes and Senior Centers

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