Archive for the 'Filtering' Category
Middle school to keep challenged book
March 25th, 2008The Wenatchee World Online - “The book “Alice on Her Way” will stay in Icicle River Middle School’s library, but with checkout restricted to students who have parental consent, the Cascade school board unanimously decided Monday.”
Big win for Idaho families: porn books pulled off Nampa library shelves
March 12th, 2008Bryan Fischer - “The Nampa Library Board yesterday voted 3-2 to pull two pornographic books off library shelves and sequester them in the library director’s office, a move which will make the library safer for Nampa families and their children.”
More on Filtering
January 27th, 2008New York Times - “Library Walks Fine Line on Web Pornography”
Librarian Fired Over DeLillo Book Dies at Age 77
January 23rd, 2008MyFox Colorado - “Anna “Jeanne” Layton refused to take “Americana” off the shelves of the Davis County Library, arguing that patrons could decide whether they wanted to read it.”
Libraries Not For Porn
January 19th, 2008Dallas Morning News Editorial - “Dallas has obligation to install Internet filters.”
More on Human Filtering
December 7th, 2007LJ - “A Maine library has been cleared of obscenity charges for having a controversial sex ed title on its shelves, and the patron who removed the book from the library will stand trial for theft.”
NIMBY
November 24th, 2007Human filtering in my own backyard…well, an hour away, but still scary.
And I thought this stuff didn’t happen on LI. Hah.
More On Human Filtering
November 23rd, 2007PZ Myers - “[W]e don’t see school boards screaming to remove Chuck Colson’s books from the shelves because the author is a convicted felon, which seems to me to be a much more serious indicator of moral turpitude than atheism, nor do we see a call to eject books by Ann Coulter because she is [...]
Focus on Judy Blume
November 5th, 2007Colleen Diskin - “Many of them spent their puberty reading Blume’s adolescent novels. Now they were bringing their grade-schoolers to meet one of the country’s most censored authors.”
More on Filtering
November 4th, 2007John Woolfolk - “Porn star and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey gets blocked. So do circumcision critics. But a pantyless Britney Spears? Not always.”
California is going through some rough times these days. I wonder if Arnold’s old shenanigans gets blocked too.
Filtering From San Jose to Sacramento
November 4th, 2007Ed Fletcher - “A contingent of conservative library board members is pushing the Sacramento Public Library to adopt a new policy aimed at ensuring library computer users do not access pornographic images.”
Filtering Revisited
October 21st, 2007John Woolfolk - “A decade after San Jose rejected blocking access to sexually explicit material on library computers, a city councilman says it’s time to reconsider that decision.”
Adventures in Blocking Library Blogs
October 15th, 2007VWB - “[T]he technology department got us right where it hurt…nothing got thru except for Library Stuff and some Teacher Tube videos.”
Yay! I didn’t get blocked. That’s because I’m not allowed to use foul language on LS.
More on Human Filtering - The Bad Kind
September 21st, 2007gjovaag - “Vigilante censorship doesn’t work.”
More on Human Filtering - The Bad Kind
September 21st, 2007Edythe Jensen - “Patrons’ complaints about the Phoenix New Times and comedian George Carlin’s audio book When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? could lead to the publications being yanked from library shelves if the Chandler Library Board agrees they’re too racy, irreverent or politically incorrect for public consumption.”
More on Human Filtering - The Bad Kind
September 18th, 2007Daniel Hartill - “A Lewiston woman wants to keep local children from seeing an acclaimed sex education book, “It’s Perfectly Normal.” So she checked out copies from the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries. And she won’t give them back.”
More on Human Filters
September 14th, 2007Editorial - “Some of those teens may be mature enough to read it as a cautionary tale. Others may be turned off by its depictions. Parents and guardians have a right to determine what their children read, as well. But the critics of the book do not have a right to dictate what other students [...]
Access Denied
July 20th, 2007Andy Carvin: “Here we were, a group of educators participating in a professional development seminar trying to discuss the role that Web 2.0 sites can play in civic education - at a presidential library, no less - and we were denied access to the information and tools we needed to have that discussion.”
Bloglines Image Wall Redux
February 23rd, 2007Somehow I missed the news of Bloglines Image Wall. Well, apparently, they got a few complaints. So, they fixed it:
"[W]e now realize we didn’t take into proper consideration how the Image Wall might impact educators, librarians and other people who have a responsibility for limiting access to adult material. Many of these good folks are [...]