Main Library - Adult Outreach Services

Location:
Main Library – 1st Floor
(704) 416-0559

Hours of Operation:
Monday – Friday 9am-5pm

Manager: Meryle A. Leonard

Outreach Services extends many of the services provided by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library to community members who are isolated from library services, cannot use library services in traditional ways, or are prevented from reading or checking out books due to physical disabilities, visual impairments, or the debilities of age. PLCMC is committed to ensuring that library services are available to everyone.

Outreach Services currently visits over 80 retirement, convalescent, or senior nutritional lunch sites around Mecklenburg County, delivering print and audio-visual materials, and offering book programs and reader’s advisory services to hundreds of appreciative residents. Outreach patrons can select from a wide variety of titles in large print format, a rotating collection of new and high demand books, and a large selection of paperbacks, videos, and audio tape books.

Outreach Services owns a collection of multimedia materials for elderly and disabled individuals. This collection includes Bi-Fokal or “Remembering Kits”, which are prepackaged programs for use with groups or individuals. Examples of titles and subjects are: Remembering County Fairs, Remembering the Home Front, Remembering Farm Days.. See PDF list of titles (Adobe Reader required).

The kits contain:

• Carousel slide programs with CDs and DVDs
• Skits
• Stories, songbooks, and games

For more information on Outreach Services at PLCMC, call (704) 416-0559, or write to:

PLCMC Adult Popular & Outreach Services
310 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC
28202

Adult Outreach Services:
Monthly programs and deliveries to:

• Nursing homes
• Independent and Assisted Living Facilities
• Adult Day-Care
• Senior Nutritional Lunch Sites and Community Centers
• Senior Living Apartments

Materials available:

• Large Print books
• Current adult fiction/non-fiction books
• Audiotape books
• DVDs
• Bi-Fokal kits
• Magazines
• Play- aways