2.2: Online resources that promote reading to adult clients

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Identifying current reading experience and preferences
3. Criteria for evaluation of online resources
4. Evaluation criteria
   1. Reliability
   2. Accuracy
   3. Currency
   4. Range and sufficiency
   5. Appropriateness
5. Reader development initiatives for adult clients
6. Reader development websites for adult clients
7. Online resources for reader development for adult clients
8. Thematic approaches to reader development for adult clients

Currency

Most reputable websites contain an indication of when the pages were last updated. However, in some cases only a small part of the website might have been altered on this date.

Larger publishers will have daily news but smaller presses might update their pages on a less regularly basis. This doesn't mean that the information is less important. The Scottish Publishers' Association's website has a New Scottish Books area which is updated when new books are published. http://www.scottishbooks.org/newScottish/

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Currency of information Can you think of some examples when it would be crucial for information to be up-to-date? The most obvious example where currency is important is when searching for information about forthcoming and recently published titles, if the reader is seeking a newly published book. You would also want to be sure that older titles are still in print if you wish to order them. And, of course, one would always want the latest prices.

Now let's look at Range and sufficiency ...