Here at HandyPro, we make your well-being our priority. Our interview series goes hand-in-hand with that effort, and we hope you find it helpful! For more information on how we can help you make your home a home for life, visit us at www.StayAtHomeModificationsInc.com or call me (Brian Pritchard) at 216-212-7531.
The Euclid Public Library welcomes people from all over the community to come in and enjoy their books, music, movies and events, but they also offer a special service for those in the city who cannot physically come into the library. Jennifer Lottes, Supervisor of Outreach Services and long-time Euclid Library employee, took some time with us to explain the program:
"Our department offers library service to residents who are unable to come into the library," Jennifer said. "If you can't come to us, we bring the library to you. [We] mostly focus on serving homebound residents, although we also have a special service for young children who are in preschools and daycares in the city. Basically how it works is, if you're unable to get out, we come every month. We make deliveries right to your home. We pick up your old materials and we bring you new things, either specific things that people request or we can select items for folks to fit their personal taste. It's a very simple service to use, and it's really a great service if you're unable to get out."
Catering to Your Interests
One of the joys of the library is being able to browse around and choose something that piques your interest. For those who are homebound, the Outreach Services program has a solution that's the next best thing. "You know," Jennifer said, "you come into the library and you like to browse around and find something that catches your eye. Well, if you can't come in, you don't really have that. So, we take people newsletters, movie lists, magazines. They can get ideas that way. Or, people can just tell us the kind of things they like. We have a conversation with them. We help them articulate what they're looking for and we bring materials to them, not necessarily based on a specific title or a specific author, just based on the kind of things [they have expressed that] they'd enjoy reading or watching."
A Compassionate, Knowledgable and FREE Service
Having spent nearly 20 years working at the Euclid Library, Jennifer Lottes knows the system in a deep way and is able to navigate it on behalf of the Outreach Services recipients to help them find exactly what they're looking for and what interests them most. "It's not about me; it's about you," she said. "My personal tastes, my interests, that doesn't really matter. I stay familiar with what's available for folks out there, with what's popular, what kind of trends are going on. I do a lot of keeping up with journals and blogs ... for books and for movies, even sometimes music, so that when someone tells me, 'Oh, I just read Gone Girl and I loved it,' I can find six other books for them." This monthly service is absolutely free to permanently or temporarily homebound members of the Euclid community.
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Here at HandyPro, we make your well-being our priority. Our
interview series goes hand-in-hand with that effort, and we hope you find it
helpful! For more information on how we can help you make your home a home for
life, visit us at www.StayAtHomeModificationsInc.com or
call me (Brian Pritchard) at 216-212-7531.
For more information about the Euclid Library's Outreach Services program, visit them on the web at www.EuclidLibrary.org/about-us/outreach or email Jennifer Lottes at outreach@euclidlibrary.org.
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