The National Telecommunications & Information Administration (2002, .) has reported that Americans 65 and older rarely perform the following Internet-based activities: visiting chat rooms, playing games, visiting job sites, listening to music, trading stocks, or participating in listservs. Wicks (2004) found that reading was one of the most popular past-times of the elderly interviewed in his study. The majority of them used the library to rent books, audio, videos and participate in library programs. If the elderly comprise a large part of the library-going population, then the library could be the best source for medical information and information literacy.
