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BOOKS:
in one day.
“I don’t know how many
books I’ve read in my life,”
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she said. “I’ve always read a
sible,” she said. “If an ac- lot. My TV is under the desk
tivity director has a particu- over there. I don’t like TV. I
lar need, they can come get get so aggravated at all those
books, or they can request commercials on there. Why
that I take them some.”
am I paying money to watch
Hansen said Proudfoot commercials?”
and fellow Guardian An-
Librarian Marie Baldo
gel Homes resident Judy said the Elderlibraries pro-
Barkhurst are “voracious gram began during her ten-
readers,” so she supplements ure in 2004 following the
the books delivered to the fa- efforts of her predecessor,
cility with special deliveries MLou Williams.
from the library’s shelves to
“MLou wrote the grant
those residents.
and got it all started, and she
“It’s great because, other- retired before we were actu-
wise, where would I get my ally awarded the grant from
books?” Barkhurst said. “I the Meyer Foundation,” she
can’t get to the library.”
said. “It was all her concept.”
She has been an avid
Baldo said the two-year
reader since the age of 4 and grant included funding for a
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employee, and the duties
were transferred to the vol-
unteer coordinator when the
funds expired.
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out a way, once those grant
funds dry up, to integrate it
into your normal operations
and to sustain it,” she said.
“That’s where there has been
changes over the years.”
Baldo said she understood
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as Elderlibraries because her
mother’s “greatest joy” was
reading, and she resided at
Hermiston Terrace until she
passed away in her 90s.
“It’s just a good pro-
gram,” she said of Elderli-
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braries. “It’s like any kind
of outreach that we do. Li- Hermiston Public Library Volunteer Coordinator Jodi Hansen shows some of the books she
braries really are trying to delivered as part of the Elderlibraries program to a small library at Guardian Angel Homes
Thursday in Hermiston.
be about outreach.”
TECH:
“I love what’s going on
with the digital age,” she
said. “A Kindle is a large-
downloaded audio materi-
als.
“It’s an audio book sys-
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tem that they’ve tried to
read it and (think) OK, now make as absolutely simple
we’re all right. It’s kind of as they can so people don’t
feel like they’re losing
the pits.”
The condition has been out,” she said. “I guess they
getting worse, but she plans have a really large library
to try a new method to ful- of newspapers and current
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books.
on with that too.”
Library Assistant Jodi
Hansen said the Hermis-
Hansen said the Library of ton Public Library recently
Congress has been making received one of the Talking
materials for people with Books machines, so staff
sight impairments since members can show people
the 1800s and has had au- how they work.
dio books for more than 50
“This is a really cool
years, but many people are program that a lot of peo-
not aware they are avail- ple don’t know about,”
able.
she said. “We would like
“Sight-impaired people to let people know that
have rights too, so the Li- this is available. They
brary of Congress works don’t have to be sight-im-
with almost every state paired. If they’re physi-
library in the country to cally handicapped where
make sure that they have they can’t read a book
braille or Talking Books like you and I can do and
available,” she said.
go into the library and
Through the LOC, the get a book, then they can
Oregon State Library pro- qualify for this program.
vides people who have dis- They just have to fill out
abilities with free Talking an application.”
Books machines that read
Applications are avail-
books aloud from car- able at the library and on-
tridges, which can be ex- line at www.tbabs.org.
changed through the mail,
Librarian Marie Baldo
Hansen said. The machines said the library is also uti-
also have a USB port, she lizing newer technology to
said, so people can listen to help provide services.
print book, and when I’m
ready for them, I’ll have
my electronics, so we’ll be
supplying (electronic books
for download) through Li-
brary2Go. There’s just a
number of ways that librar-
ies adapt and try to provide
service to people.”
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