Filtering

[Judith Murray Griffiths]

Karen,

Have you looked at Yahooligans at www.yahooligans.com?


At 10:02 AM 7/3/97 -0700, Karen Harker wrote:
>I was wondering if the technology and resources existed for a
>link-compiler like Yahoo! aimed at children/youth.  I am thinking of a
>resource which has librarians looking at the sites, giving their judgment
>of the content, and being able to not include those sites with
>inappropriate material (i.e. material which is illegal to provide to
>children).  If such a search engine could be used to only search those
>sites (like Yahoo! does), and if a browser could be modified to not allow
>one to open a location (like Netscape's 'Open'), such a software could be
>made available to those children whose parents want to restrict their (the
>children's) access.  I am thinking primarily of such a system on a machine
>in the children's section or in school libraries.
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>While this does not provide a perfect solution, it would eliminate the
>broad blocking that keyword filters force, allowing children to get
>information on breast cancer, or AIDS.  The library could still provide
>unlimited access to adult clients, or children whose parents want their
>children to have free access.
>
>I imagine such an animal exists somewhere.
>
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>Karen R. Harker					214-648-2001
>Librarian I					214-648-3007 (fax)
>The University of Texas				
>Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
>5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
>Dallas, Texas  75235-9049
>harker at medcat.library.swmed.edu
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Judith Murrray Griffiths
Southwest Regional Library System
Durango, CO 
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