Wired News: Librarians Struggle with Censorware Issue (fwd)

[Dorothy Day]

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>From Wired News:

>           Librarians Struggle with Censorware Issue
>           by Ashley Craddock
> 
>           4:52pm  29.Apr.97.PDT Responding to the flurry of concern
>           that kids may forgo the beach in favor of online
>           smut-surfing, the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the
>           American Library Association is readying a set of
>           guidelines that emphasize software-free approaches to
>           keeping children safe online.
> 
>           "We will suggest guidelines essentially saying that
>           librarians should have usage policies appropriate to the
>           Internet, and that if they don't, they should damn well
>           write some," Judith Krug, director of the library
>           association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, said
>           Tuesday.


(rest of article available at):

	http://www.wired.com/news/politics/story/3499.html


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Dorothy Day			
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University
day at indiana.edu