Year: 1968
Type: article
Abstract: WHEN,I N 1941, the Adult Education Department was established in the Cleveland Public Library following a recommendation made in the survey conducted by Leon Carnovsky,l one of its stated objectives was to approach, serve, and cooperate closely with every kind of community agency.The implications of this went far beyond this simple statement and meant the developing of approaches, techniques and materials which, so far as those of us who were involved in this experiment knew, had not been used before by libraries.Our efforts to achieve this objective bore a variety of fruits.One of them was the development of a special program with and for older people.Two paths led to the creation of this service, one indirect, the other direct.Let us consider first the former: in 1943, a German refugee, once a leading social worker in Leipzig, persuaded the Benjamin Rose Foundation, a Cleveland agency dedicated to promoting the welfare of the elderly, to attempt an experimental "golden age" program.As he developed groups in settlement houses and churches, he turned to the Cleveland Public Library for help in planning his programs, which were mainly recreational.His search was for games, entertaining films and an occasional book review.Three years later, in 1946, another and different approach was made to us.In the interim the originator of the Golden Age Club idea had retired, and the Cleveland Welfare Federation employed a worker whose sole assignment was to devote herself to work with older people.This worker, Mrs. Lucia Bing, had worked with Clara Lucioli who at that time was head of the Judd Fund Division Service to Shut-ins.
Author: Fern Long
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2292186471