Presentation Pointers for Trainers Educating Adult Patrons

Know your Audience and what you will be presenting

Get Prepared: Know your product – Be sure you know the ins and outs of the library and

resources it offers.

Know who we are and what the library is about. Why is the Library important to the audience you are presenting to? Do your homework:

Know your customer/patrons – Match your language to what your patrons want, whether it’s homework help or genealogy.

Make you library’s resources easy to find – be prepared to show just how easy our resources are to find. Can they find the resources quickly?

Speak your patrons language- You must speak your patrons language so they

can navigate the resources with ease. Go get em! – Get the word out

Tools for Presenting

Library website – www.MyLibrary.us

My Library/ My Account• Parts of My Account – entire card number and pin (last 4 digits of phone)

required• View items checked / check profile information• Borrowing Privileges• Renewals • Loan Periods• Requests / How to place hold – entire card number and pin (last 4 digits of

phone) required - specify pickup location• Interlibrary Loans

Online Now • Audio eBooks• Book News• On-Demand Videos• Tumblebooks• Learning Express• Novelist• eResearch

Tools for Presenting

Library Catalog: Books, DVDs, CDs Lists• New at the Library • New Movies• New Movies• New Music• Bestsellers• Book Reviews, Awards & More• Movie Reviews, Awards and Ratings• Music Awards & Reviews • Book Clubs & More• Audio ebooks Browse WLD books and Audio books Brows WLD Movies & Music

Searching – Basic & Advanced

Kids & Teens Links/brief

Ways to ask a question Phone us Email us Visit us FAQ Ask Colorado Link

Adult Database Resources –card number required (Not an exhaustive list)

Academic Search Premier Scholarly journals and magazines. Arts, humanities, social sciences, science, technology.

All Data Online Comprehensive resource for automobile repair (1982 – current). Accessible from the Farr Branch Library. No remote access.

Ancestry Library Edition Genealogy research database. Accessible from within the library. No remote access.

Chilton Library.com Automobile repair information (1954 – current).

Consumer Health Complete Full text articles on health & medicine topics from encyclopedias,

directories, medical dictionaries, periodicals, newspapers and the Internet. Heritage Quest

Genealogy research database.

Adult Database Resources –card number required (Not an exhaustive list)

Infotrac Onefile Full text general interest database from magazines, reference books and

newspapers. Coverage from 1980-the present.

Legal Forms Official, State specific, Federal, Personal, Real Estate, and General forms.

Mergent Online Business resource and Company profiles.

Newspaper Archives Historical newspapers including the Greeley Tribune up to 1977.

Novelist Fiction Readers Advisory and book discussion. Search more than 135,000 titles by author and series. Find read-a-likes by

author or plot. Reference USA

Search 650,000 Physicians and Dentists; U.S. Company search; U.S. White pages.

Includes information on International companies. Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Repair assistance with ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), PWC (jet ski), snow blowers, snowmobiles and more.

Helpful Resources

Helpful videos Brochures:

Database brochure Computer class brochure Check with the PIO office for current versions

of supplemental brochures and handouts HPLD general brochure (purple)

Equipment needed: projector, laptop, bulletin board, etc Any “freebie” gifts, such as HPLD pens or such – (folks LOVE

gifts!) Better yet – take a laptop and show them our website. This

would be determined by accessibility. (Include instructions for checking out the aforementioned laptop (and projector, if needed).