Cyberfiltering (fwd)

[Dianne L Parham]

Don't forget the National Geographic....a personal favorite for viewing 
human anatomy.  I hear Chrysler and some other big corporations now want 
ESQUIRE and other magazines to submit their articles to the corporations 
before the corporations will decide whether or not they will run 
advertising because they don't want to be linked with "dubious" content.  
I don't know about you, but I don't want my reading decided by the 
pristine morales of big corporations. I agree they should be able to 
advertise as they choose...I don't agree they should have editorial 
approval.  I think we need to really consider who we are giving our 
freedoms away to.  Dianne Parham, San Diego Public Library, 
dzp at library.sannet.gov, speaking on behalf of myself and myself alone

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 1 MAY 1997 06:09:21 -0700
From: Steve Harter <harter at indiana.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Cyberfiltering

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dianne L Parham wrote:

> Many libraries, including mine, have separate children's and adults
> computers.  But here is the question I pose....who decides when a child
> becomes an adult?  I can't visualize overworked staff checking I.D.'s.

That reminds me of my own experience in my local public library as a 11 or
12 year old kid, when I checked out and read _From Here to Eternity_. A
couple of years later I wanted to re-read it and was denied, as not being
an adult.  (There must have been a change in policy, or perhaps just a
sloppy clerk the first time around.) Having already read the book, I was
amused at the irony even then.

My point is that chronological age says very little that is useful about
this issue, whether we are talking about books or Web pages.

I also read everything I could get my hands on that provided me with much
needed information about sex. (Don't most adolescents?) Readers Digest
was the best single source.

   Steve

      Stephen P. Harter,  School of Library and Information Science
      Indiana University                      Voice: (812) 855-5113
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