Presentation Pointers for Trainers Educating Seniors

Know your Audience and what you will be presenting

Get Prepared: Know your product – Be sure you know the ins and outs of the library and

resources it offers.

Know who we are and what the library is about. Why is the Library important to the audience you are presenting to? Do your homework:

Know your customer/patrons – Match your language to what your patrons want, whether it’s homework help or genealogy.

Make you library’s resources easy to find – be prepared to show just how easy our resources are to find. Can they find the resources quickly?

Speak your patrons language- You must speak your patrons language so they

can navigate the resources with ease. Go get em! – Get the word out

Tools for Presenting

Library website – www.MyLibrary.us

My Library/ My Account• Parts of My Account – entire card number and pin (last 4 digits of phone) required• View items checked / check profile information• Borrowing Privileges• Renewals • Loan Periods• Requests / How to place hold – entire card number and pin (last 4 digits of

phone) required - specify pickup location• Interlibrary Loans

Online Now • Audio eBooks• Book News• On-Demand Videos• Tumblebooks• Learning Express• Novelist• eResearch

Tools for Presenting

Library Catalog: Books, DVDs, CDs Lists• New at the Library • New Movies• New Movies• New Music• Bestsellers• Book Reviews, Awards & More• Movie Reviews, Awards and Ratings• Music Awards & Reviews • Book Clubs & More• Audio ebooks Browse WLD books and Audio books Brows WLD Movies & Music

Searching – Basic & Advanced

Kids & Teens Links/brief

Ways to ask a question Phone us Email us Visit us FAQ Ask Colorado Link

Senior Database Resources card number required (Not an exhaustive list)

Ancestry Library Edition Genealogy research database. Accessible from within the library. No remote access.

Consumer Health Complete Full text articles on health & medicine topics from

encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionaries, periodicals, newspapers and the Internet.

Digital Sanborn Maps of Colorado Provides digital access to 631 historical large-scale maps of

150 Colorado towns and cities. Health Source Consumer Edition

Consumer health information on topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.

HeritageQuest Genealogy research database.

Senior Database Resources card number required (Not an exhaustive list)

LegalForms Official, State specific, Federal, Personal, Real Estate, and

General forms. Mergent Online

Business resource. Company profiles.

Novelist Fiction Readers Advisory and book discussion. Search more than 135,000 titles by author and series. Find

read-a-likes by author or plot. Newspaper Archives

Historical newspapers including the Greeley Tribune up to 1977.

Reference USA Search 650,000 Physicians and Dentists; U.S. Company

search; U.S. White pages. Includes information on International companies.

Helpful Resources

Helpful videos Brochures:

Database brochure Computer class brochure Check with the PIO office for current versions

of supplemental brochures and handouts HPLD general brochure (purple)

Equipment needed: projector, laptop, bulletin board, etc Any “freebie” gifts, such as HPLD pens or such – (folks LOVE

gifts!) Better yet – take a laptop and show them our website. This

would be determined by accessibility. (Include instructions for checking out the aforementioned laptop (and projector, if needed).