[11559] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Case Studies, Tips for Filters, and Alternatives to Filters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karen G. Schneider)
Tue Aug 12 20:26:57 1997
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:31:34 -0500
From: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs@bluehighways.com>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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Using filters? NOT using filters? Once you've decided, how do you make it
happen most effectively?
For my forthcoming book, A Practical Guide to Internet Filters, I am
including a chapter as well as additional discussion about implementing the
decision to NOT use Internet content filters in a library. I have two
excellent case studies selected (if I say so myself!) and would like to
offer several more vignettes and at least one more study. In addition to
more formal discussion about the mechanics of not using filters, I'd like
to include a list of real-life "top tips" from librarians in the field.
The "top tips" will also be freely available on my website (and one of the
case studies--of Cyber Kids, an award-winning program from Canton Public
Library, Michigan--is the topic of my next American Libraries column).
If you are using a filter, or are involved in the planning process, I'd
like to hear from you, too. I'm looking for a couple of case studies, and
I'd like to pull together a list of real-life top tips (again, to be made
available on my website). What helped make this an effective decision for
your library? What advice can you offer others? What would you definitely
do (or not do) again?
By the way, for those interested, I have finished tabulating results for
one large section of the TIFAP project and am quickly tabulating the other,
smaller section. I'm on a tight deadline related to my book, so expect
more information, including a summary report, up within the week. To find
out more about TIFAP, including the stalwart yeopersons who made it happen,
see http://www.bluehighways.com/tifap/
If you see this message after Labor Day--hope you had a nice holiday, and
this message is obsolete. :-)
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Karen G. Schneider | kgs@bluehighways.com | schneider.karen@epamail.epa.gov
Director, US EPA Region 2 Library | Contractor, GCI | Opinions home-grown
The Internet Filter Assessment Project: http://www.bluehighways.com/tifap/
Author, Forthcoming: A Practical Guide to Internet Filters (Neal Schuman, 1997)
