(Fwd) Kids Site Now a Pornographic Site -- www.kidsvista.com

[bbatchel at memlane.com]

Hi

Have not seen any info here on this -- perhaps some have this link on 
their websites.

Bob Batchelder
Shortgrass Library System
bob at shortgrass-lib.ab.ca
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Apologies for cross-posting...

Following up on a patron complaint, a vigilant colleague at the 
Brampton
Public Library has brought it to our attention that the site
www.kidsvista.com  is now a pornographic site.  The original
www.kidsvista.com site has let their domain name registration lapse 
and
the name was picked up by and turned into a pornographic site.  Close 
to
3000 sites, many of them schools and libraries, link to this site. 
Please
take the time to check if your library has a link to this site. The
original kidsvista site was a site that described itself as "World 
Wide
Web Digital Library for Schoolkids" and by one library site as "an
interesting and easy-to-understand site for arts, science, and social
sciences homework help".

The Media Awareness Canada program for libraries can help the staff of
public libraries to make parents and children more aware of the issues
involved in Internet use by young children - issues such as protection
from offensive and illegal content.  They offer three professional
development modules and two overview presentations of the Web Awareness
workshops that can be delivered to library staff and boards.  One of these
overviews is approximately one hour and the other is twenty minutes.  An
overview that library staff can present to parents as a public education
tool will also be available.  Updated versions of all modules will be
available by the end of September.

For more information, please see
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/webaware/workshops/workshop.htm where it
is possible to read overviews of the three workshops and to download a
short overview of the Web Awareness workshops.  Under the Pricing and
Ordering information you will see that the workshops are being offered
free until the end of December, 2001.



Gillian Shields Barbery, Library Officer, Web Awareness Canada
Media Awareness Network/Réseau Éducation-Médias
E-mail: gbarbery at media-awareness.ca
Telephone: (613) 224-7642
Facsimile: (613) 224-1958
Web: http://www.media-awareness.ca/
1500 Merivale Road, Third Floor
Ottawa, Ontario, K2E 6Z5


Bob Batchelder, Technical Services Coordinator
Shortgrass Library System
2375 10th Ave SW
Medicine Hat, Alberta, T1A 8G2, Canada

phone 403 / 529-0550;  fax:  403 / 528-2473
e-mail:  bbatchel at memlane.com
http://www.shortgrass-lib.ab.ca