DO YOU SERVE SENIORS?

Here are two good resources for those who have older adults as customers.

Honnold, RoseMary and Saralyn A. Mesaros, Serving Seniors: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, Neal-Schuman, 2004, ISBN 1-55570482-4, US$60. A bibliography and links to online resources is available online at http://www.cplrmh.com/seniors.html

National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine, Making Your Web Site Senior Friendly: A Checklist (http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/ocpl/resources/
wag/documents/checklist.pdf). Includes designing readable text for older adults, writing the text, incorporating other media, increasing the ease of navigation, and an example of a senior-friendly site (http://www.nihseniorhealth.gov).