Aging at Your Library: How Colorado Libraries Meet the Moment for Aging Adults (AARP Livable Communities + Colorado’s Public Libraries)

April is a month of celebration for libraries! This month, community members and partners are invited to join the Colorado State Library to learn about what your libraries are doing to support you through your silver, golden, and diamond years. Community members and library professionals will have two opportunities in and around National Library Week 2025 to learn together and forge new relationships.

In “Aging at Your Library: How Colorado Libraries Meet the Moment for Aging Adults,” Coloradan community members, partners, and libraries will learn about the Colorado public library ecosystem, find their local libraries, and learn how their libraries have built robust programs, curated resources, and fostered partnerships to meet the ever-growing needs of aging and older adults. As the state’s population trends bend toward aging and aging-in-place communities, the trends of Colorado’s public library services, resources, and partnerships follow. From tai chi classes and Ageless Grace programming to end of life and caregiving for adults educational series, Colorado’s libraries have responded to the call of their communities to meet them where they are and take them where they want to go. Colorado’s Associate State Director of Livable & Diverse Communities at AARP, Marissa Volpe, will share the vision, scope, and opportunities for work with AARP Livable Communities in Colorado. Together from the vantage point of the state library and AARP’s Livable Communities, participants will learn how they are connected to one another and how we all work to creating an age-friendly, inclusive Colorado.

This presentation will include examples from the field, highlighting different libraries’ offerings and introducing participants to the new, innovative ways libraries respond to their unique and dynamic communities.

This 90-minute webinar will include 30 minutes for community members to engage in direct conversation with their local library partners. Please come ready for robust conversation and an eagerness to meet and chat with fellow Coloradans working toward age-friendly communities.

LibraryLand, please visit the AARP Livable Communities page to learn about the community who will be attending and to locate the resources that are available for you, your neighbors, and your library.

There are two opportunities to attend this session. It will be held live online twice. See dates, times, and registration links below.

• Friday, April 4, 2025 from 1PM to 2:30PM MST. Register here on Zoom.

• Monday, April 7, 2025 from 5:30PM to 7PM MST. Register here on Zoom.

About the presenter

Cristy Moran (she/ ella) is a librarian, an educator, an instructional designer, and an information literacy specialist who has worked in libraries and education for over 15 years. Currently she serves at the Adult Library Services Senior Consultant for the Colorado State Library. She is a “librarian for librarians” and a library evangelist, bringing the critical often overlooked role libraries play as social and civic infrastructure to every room she’s in. Adults are her people no matter their age, identity, language, needs, aspirations, or contexts. Cristy’s professional library interests are wide-ranging and varied, but always centered on the users, patrons, and communities who we serve.

Spanglish is her superpower. Kindness punk is her praxis. She’d tell you wildflower seed-bombing is what she does for a living.