[Publib] Singles programs

[Caroline Desrosiers]

You say 'rural' so I don't know if this idea is worth anything, but in my
last library we did a singles program in conjunction with the local
Starbucks.  It was a Valentine's Day event for singles, so it did have a
'dating' undertone, but I don't think we made any matches ; )  The basic
program involved a couple people from Starbucks coming in to share samples
of coffee and their drinking chocolate while they did a talk on the romance
of coffee.

It was in an area of Florida with a high retiree population, so we probably
didn't have quite the audience the program's intended for, but people
enjoyed it quite a bit.

Caroline

On 3/7/08, Renee Patterson <rpatterson at aclib.us> wrote:
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> Hi all!
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> My patrons have requested that I start some type of singles social event.
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> I didn't see much in our archives.  Has anyone been pursuing this line of
> programming?  What's been working for you?
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> Our library is in a small rural area, and we'd have a wide age range.  The
> interest is more in social activity vs. dating.
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> The front runner so far is a "Singles Mingle" type, as they've done at the
> British Library.
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> Other ideas?
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> Renee Patterson
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> Librarian, ACLD
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