We’re actively collecting cool ideas and promising practices to help inspire continued library innovation in serving and engaging Boomers. If you have any ideas or practices you’d like to share, please use the contact form to let us know.

We’ll be highlighting here what we discover over the coming months — building a repertoire of inspiring examples as a springboard for further innovation.

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As part of the TLA50 initiative we have created a social network (powered by Ning) that is a community of library professionals and library users who are working to transform how libraries serve and engage their communities, especially active, older adults between the ages of 45-63 (or Baby Boomers).

Although initially formed to support the twenty-four grant funded libraries in California where the initiative began, we hope to interact with other libraries, in California and beyond, that are also actively reaching out to their Boomer communities. By inviting libraries to share their experiences and lessons learned, we hope to create a diverse TLA50 learning community - a place to exchange ideas and share examples from which we all may draw inspiration.

One of the focuses of the TLA50 project is to "envision an alternative to the predominant deficit-based model of aging." Therefore, we have embarked on various social media endeavors as a way to encourage both libraries and Boomers to use new technologies as a means of communicating, problem solving, learning and growing. You can find TLA50 on Twitter and Facebook as well.

Please visit our Transforming Life After 50 community to share stories, learn from your peers, and connect with other libraries and other Boomers who are redefining aging.