Through Outreach Service’s Community Education Coordinator, you can make several group activities available to your residents. It’s easy to set up, fun for everyone, and it’s free!

Large Print/Audio Book Discussion Program

Outreach Services has more than a dozen large print, audio, and mixed format book discussion kits available. Current titles include:

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kid
• Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas and Micah Sparks
• Hallelujah! The Welcome Table by Maya Angelou
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
• Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
• Beowulf: a New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
• The Greek Villa by Eileen Gould
• The Touch by Colleen McCullough
• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
• Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
• Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
• The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun
• Step on a Crack by James Patterson
• Death of a Macho Man by M. C. Beaton
• Dark Tort by Diane Mott Davidson
• No Regrets by Ann Rule
• Dark Assassin by Anne Perry
• Triple Cross by Kit Ehrman
• Under Orders by Dick Francis

Contact Sherry Baker at 231-5594 to set up a monthly discussion program at your facility or to hear about other titles available through the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. The Lexington Public Library provides book kits, discussion materials, and even fliers to help promote your program. All you need to do is provide space and the people!

BiFolkal Remembering Programs

BiFolkal Remembering Kits are a compact and easy-to-use resource available free for check-out and use through the Outreach Services department of the Library.

Each kit focuses on a time or topic in the past and includes a variety of resources -- photographic images, music, artifacts, and activities -- to trigger memories and encourage the sharing of stories. There’s even an outline for the group leader to follow when using the kit with a crowd.

Use the program as is, or tailor it with the music and photos and other kit pieces. The result is an innovative, informative program that people will talk about for weeks to come.

Titles include:

• Remembering Pets
• Remembering County Fairs
• Remembering the Depression
• Remembering the Home Front
• Remembering the Fashion
• Remembering Fun & Games
• And many more!

Other kits include remembrances of holidays and special events like birthdays.

Call Sherry Baker at 231-5594 to set up a program at your facility. Programs last 45 minutes to 1 hour and can easily accommodate 35-40 people.