Electronic Brown Wrappers [former TV watcher and current

[Burt, David]

scharles wrote:

>I think the difference here is that most people have telephones, and TV's.
>Internet access is currently not so universal.

Again, why does this obligate a library to do things outside it's
mission,
purpose, and collection policies?

I do think that public libraries have at least an ethical obligation to
provide Internet access to the information poor.  But there is no reason
to believe that this obligates libraries, legally or ethically,  to
provide *everything* on the Internet, particularly things,like hard-core
porn, which unquestionably are far outside the bounds of a typical
public libraries' mission.


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          David Burt, Information Technology Librarian 
          The Lake Oswego Public Library 
          706 Fourth Street, Lake Oswego, OR 97034
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