Bethlehem Area Public Library
Advocacy and Outreach Committee

Minutes

Monday February 25, 2019
Attending: Joyce Hinnefeld, Rayah Levy, Malissa Davis, Annamarie Jordan, Josh Berk, Kate Racculia


Community Outreach Discussion

Brainstormed various types of ongoing programs that could be offered to senior life communities and facilities (other than general BAPL informational sessions), including:
Booking existing library programs/speakers at offsite locations
Geoff Gehman’s Bethlehem Steel Baseball presentation
Lehigh University doctoral candidate talks
Musicians -- from LV Charter HS for the Arts, BAPL musicians
Moravian Academy’s storyshare program, connecting HS seniors with individuals in senior life facilities (under teacher Catherine Moore)
Genealogy, ancestry.com, BAPL WWII database presentations
LV Engaged Humanities Consortium/4-part Oral History progressive series, including:
Initial genealogy/ancestry and WWII archive presentation
Writing/memoir workshop
Storytelling/storysharing workshop
Oral history ‘open mic’ to be recorded and documented by BAPL
	

Pilot program goals: hold events quarterly, and develop a program that can be easily scaled/adapted to other organizations and facilities.

Could Teen Advisory Board be involved?

Program title: Library Without Borders/BAPL Without Borders


Action Items

Rayah will talk to Regina to coordinate outreach to Country Meadow for a pilot program; Rayah will also reach out to Bridle Path. Malissa made initial contact with John P. at Country Meadows, who was very receptive to BAPL programming.

Kate will develop programmatic interest survey that can be distributed to facilities.

Josh will compile list of senior life facilities, including Country Meadows, Bridle Path, Lutheran Manor, Traditions of (etc).

All will continue to distribute fliers and brochures, and to talk up BAPL programs!



Next meeting: Monday March 25, 2019 @ 1 pm, Main Library - Laros Room