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Bob, Murray L. – Library Journal, 1986
Comments on the Meese Report on pornography and why the library community should pay attention to the actual text. Positive alternatives to censorship are suggested to counter the commercialization of sex, e.g., giving women more decisive roles in media production and strengthening alternative media. (EM)
Descriptors: Censorship, Libraries, Mass Media Effects, Obscenity
Berry, John – Library Journal, 1998
Describes services offered and problems encountered at the Medina County (Ohio) District Library, winner of the Gale Research/Library Journal Library of the Year Award. Highlights include resisting pressure from the religious right to limit children's Internet access to protect them from pornography; a successful tax levy; and growth in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Awards, Childrens Libraries, Internet
Tenopir, Carol – Library Journal, 1997
Freedom from the necessity for technical understanding of online technology allows librarians to focus on the human factors in online interaction. This article discusses estimates of Web use, need for user assistance, alternative sources of information, information overload and relevance, Internet identities, pornography and library policy, and…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Sources, Interaction, Internet
Hyman, Karen – Library Journal, 1996
Discusses concerns about children's access to pornography on the Internet by presenting a scenario of a television interview. Topics include communicating effectively; the Communications Decency Act; keyword blocking efforts; and rules for television interviews. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescents, Children, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Oder, Norman – Library Journal, 1997
The public library has become the locus for public anxiety about children's access to objectionable material on the Internet. Discusses Judith Krug's (Director of the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom) defense of unrestricted access, acceptable use, and filtering software. Highlights six filtering programs (client and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Children, Computer Software Evaluation, Intellectual Freedom
Tenopir, Carol – Library Journal, 1995
Discusses the impact of Internet access on library reference services based on 1994 interviews with almost two dozen university librarians. Highlights include library policy, overcrowded workstations and methods of controlling use, recreational use of terminals that interferes with more formal library use, restriction as a form of censorship, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Censorship, Computer Networks
White, Howard D. – Library Journal, 1986
Examination of data from four General Social Surveys (1976, 1977, 1980, 1982) focuses on questions related to intellectual freedom, especially library censorship. Responses are analyzed together with selected demographic variables to determine which broad segments of society give majority support to censorship and which do not. (7 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Censorship, Graphs, Intellectual Freedom
