Articles
November 1997
The Director - Features
Can You Help Me? Your Funeral Home a Community Resource Center
Learn how to make your funeral home a community resource. Developing a collection of books that discusses death, grief and rebuilding life will not only benefit the families you serve, but also can become an information resource for your community.
Can You Help Me? How to Make Your Funeral Home a Community Resource, suggests several books to add to your resource center, including books designed specifically for children, widows and parents. Because funeral directors are in direct contact with the people who need these resources, the funeral home is the ideal location for these book subjects.
Roberta Egelston, MLS, author of this article, is the librarian at the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, Pittsburgh, PA. She received her master s degree in library science from the University of Pittsburgh.
