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[Filtering Facts]

Librarian Seeks Evidence of Complaints About Internet Misuse
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/cyber/articles/20library.html
  April 20, 1999         By PAMELA MENDELS  

As computers with Internet access have become common in public libraries
around the country, librarians have struggled with the issue of whether or
not to restrict the types of material patrons can view. But there has been
little hard evidence to support claims that allowing unfettered access to
sexually explicit or otherwise inappropriate material causes problems for
librarians or patrons. 

David Burt, a librarian in Lake Oswego, Ore., is trying to change this. He
is contacting libraries nationwide and asking them, under state freedom of
information laws, to turn over records of complaints they have received about
patrons, especially children, viewing inappropriate material at library
computers. 

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