[11330] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Enlightened librarian and teacher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vigdor Schreibman - FINS)
Tue May 27 20:11:52 1997
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 15:12:26 -0500
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
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Will Americans have the best or the worst
of the, Knowledge/information age?
An enlightened librarian, just as a caring teacher, will utilize
public funds for equipment and carefully selected access to the
Internet, only to creatively designed websites that offer,
"Knowledge Organization for the Betterment of Humankind," as
described by this writer's IFLA-UDT Occasional Paper, available at
URL: <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/VI/5/op/index.htm>. Competent
librarians and teachers certainly will not utilize public funds to
inflict upon their community the worst of a decadent civilization:
a technological wasteland comprised of manipulative infotainment,
explotive sex, and gratuitive violence.
Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
[Browse Fins Information Age Library at the inforM system,
University of Maryland: HTTP://www.inform.umd.edu/FINS/]
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Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 00:20:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: Multiple discussion lists
Subject: Edupage, 20 May 1997 (fwd)
The below item appeared in the Edupage edition, 20 May 1997. Republication
by FINS is authorized, without charge, for non-profit use with credit to
Educom, as confirmed 21 May 1997, by Krystal Bullers, Publications
Coordinator, Educom.
SAFE SURFING GUIDELINES FROM ALA The American Library Association has
drafted a set of guidelines for librarians, su ggesting ways to assist
patrons in using online searches without incurring liability for ones that
turn up potentially offensive or "indecent" material. The guidelines
offer "some easy things that a library can do at this point rather than
trying to block access to the Internet or put up filters or do something
that is so restrictive to their patrons' access to the Internet," says the
assistant director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. The
recommendations include: educating staff, library board, governing
bodies, community leaders, parents, children, etc. about the Internet and
what it offers; establishing and implementing written policies on Internet
use; reminding parents that they are responsible for their children's
Internet use; creating and promoting Web pages with recommended sites for
parents and children; and placing terminals away from public view so that
others are not offended by any particular user's choice of viewing
material. (Chronicle of Higher Education 23 May 97)
