[Web4lib] questions about CIPA

[Lori Ayre]

Daniel,

To get started, read the article I wrote at
http://infopeople.org/resources/filtering/.  Then check out the
resources listed at the end of that article.

Also, there's a bunch of information about filtering on my websites:

http://galecia.com/libraries_resources.php (see the link to an excerpt
from the Library And Technology Reports issue I wrote "Filters and
Filtering Software")
http://galecia.com/weblog  (see the category of posts "filtering")
http://libraryfiltering.org (matrix of filtering product info)

If you have specific questions about filtering let me Know.  I've been
focusing on this area since 2000.

Lori



On 12/1/06, Daniel Weltsch <danweltsch at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all. This is my first post on this forum.
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> I am a first semester library school student writing a paper about CIPA and internet filtering. I've done some preliminary  research, and now I'm trying to get a feel for what consensus, if any, there is about how public libraies are dealing with it. A 2002 Florida State University survey I saw recently says only 22.4% of public libraries are receiving discounted e-rate funding for internet service, so I guess for a large majority of public libraries CIPA is a non-issue. I'm having a hard time finding recent statistics.
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> Does anyone have any statistics, or "war stories," or general impressions to share with me regarding CIPA  or web filters?  I know about the 2002 & 2003 legal battles; I'm more intersted in the day-to-day approaches/problems/solutions, including the issue of ease-of-disabling the filters when full web access is needed. The filtering software products I've noticed mentioned are 8E6 and  a something called Bess from N2H2. Do they work well? Are there others that are preferred?
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> A report I've seen discusses the mandate that all computers in public libraries , not just the public access computers, must be filtered...is this correct? ...or perhaps this is just a function of the filtering happening at the server or firewall level. I'm still trying to figure out how the logistics of the filters work.
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> Again, I'm new to the field, and I've got plenty of questions, but would appreciate any sort of feed-back. You can write me off-list at danweltsch at yahoo.com with responses, or post to the forum if you think this is of interest to others.
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> Thanks very much.
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