Electronic Brown Wrappers

[Burt, David]

Jan Heckman wrote,
>If a reference librarian  could provide the address of a highly
>controversial goup (NAMBLA,, if that's the right acroynm), but not an
>ILL document, would/should you?

Sounds like your confusing providing information about a resource
with providing the resource itself, two different things.


>Violence and the acceptance of same as an answer or response to human
>conditions has caused much more grief than pornography.  Should the
>(fictional titles) "The History of War", "Serial Killers of the 20th
>Century",  "The Art of Boxing", etc. and all internet access to same
>be restricted?  Do the parents who object to sexual material equally
>object to violent material?

Your making an ivalid comparison.  What I'm proposing is making
Internet access more like  a public library collection.

>The whole impact of the internet means maybe material not collected in the
past
>can now be accessed.

This is really the whole can of worms, isn't it?  Obviously, we disagree
on this.

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