Library Outreach Specialist - Denver Public Library
As a Library Outreach Specialist your job will be to provide older adults with the information, services, and programs they need to have a fulfilling, meaningful, connected, and healthy older adulthood through strategic library outreach and bookmobile service. Your primary location will operate out of the Central Library, however, DPL reserves the right to reassign locations based upon operational and/or staffing needs at any given time.
This role will work to deliver and design library services for a diverse customer base, strengthen community connections, and represent the Denver Public Library to stakeholders and the community. In this position, you will lead the planning of and participation in special events, and utilize mobile tools, including driving large vehicles, to increase library presence in the community. You will assist customers and train staff on readers advisory, reference assistance, technology navigation, and the development of offsite programming tailored to people aged 50+.
This role will work with DPLs Older Adult Services Department, older adult home service coordinators, and organizations serving people experiencing life challenges to plan bookmobile outreach across Denver. The customers you assist will include people who have Alzheimer’s, dementia, memory loss, or other forms of cognitive impairment. This role will help lead collection maintenance and collection development activities for adult materials in Mobile Services. You will work collaboratively with other staff and library branch locations to identify library outreach needs for older adults in metro Denver and participate in relevant library committee work. You will develop and maintain strong and lasting partnerships with community partners and work directly with community members to understand and deliver on their library needs.
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