Filtering Blues
December 30th, 2001Lots of hubbub at work over the new filtering laws. We have been looking in to costing-out filtering including software, support and implementation. What kind of libraries will we have if these laws hold up in court? Here is one scenario: a user sits down at a public PC, sees a notification that it is a filtered machine and that if she wants unfiltered access, she’ll have to see the librarian and show ID indicating that she is over 18. Will reference librarians become filter toggles? Who will want to be that kind of librarian?