FW: Public Library Sued for NOT Filtering CORRECTION

[L. Hunter Kevil]

Let me add my two cents here. IMHO civility in list behavior is NOT optional
and name-calling is most definitely not something to be judged on an ad-hoc
case-by-case basis. Civility is an essential prerequisite, not something to
be tempered by someone's need to express emotion. Lack of self-discipline in
this regard can ruin this list for everyone.

L. Hunter Kevil
University of Missouri-Columbia
internet: mulkevil at showme.missouri.edu
tel: 573-884-8760
fax: 573-884-5243

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at library.berkeley.edu [mailto:web4lib at library.berkeley.edu]
On Behalf Of Thomas Keene (LIS)
Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 12:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Public Library Sued for NOT Filtering CORRECTION


I would like to ask the list moderator(s) to NOT act too quickly in
censoring those that express opinions about others on the list.
Librarians are not delicate flowers.  We can take the rough and tumble.
Sometimes ideas or actions (and the individuals that espouse them) deserve
attack.  Defining someone with a derogatory term may not be at all out of
line.  Personal discomfort cannot be the borderline between discussion
that is allowable and that which isn't in this, or any other, serious
debate.

 @*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@
     Tom Keene, Public Services Librarian
     New Port Richey Public Library
     keene at luna.cas.usf.edu
 @*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@

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