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Librarian Suspended over Patrons' Web Access
bsw149 writes "The head librarian of the Valparaiso Community Library in Florida was suspended
after investigators found that users had viewed adult content on public computers.
While the library has a policy against viewing adult material on library
computers, the librarian is facing possible dismissal. Is the best enforcement policy to
hold librarians personally responsible for the materials patrons' access?"
How to get your local librarian fired: 1) Upload the porn to your private online server 2) View the porn on your private server at the library 3) Keep the cache intact. 4) Contact the authorities and inform them that someone has been looking at porn on library computers. 5) Laugh mirthlessly as you watch your librarian being led away in handcuffs.
Did he get his moneyshot on the keyboard? Now that would be A Bad Thing. I am looking for keyboard manufactureres who have a built in cloth cum-rag roller at the top of the keyboard. Sort of like those roller things in public restrooms, where you pull the roller and the cloth comes down clean and pressed -- ever so pristine. Oh, on a wiper arm thing for the screen. All automatic, of course and powered by a firmware Linux distro.
nar
As someone with generations of many librarians in the family, I can say that monitoring what users access - be it electronic or paper - is antithetical to being a librarian.
Librarians are supposed to be about enabling patrons to find the information they are looking for, not judging them and certainly not censoring the information.
So how many of the librarians in your family over the generations helped sex offenders find child pornography?
Being a librarian is about tearing down the walls around information, not building them up.
So when a sex offender wants naked photographs of your children you're going to oblige him instead of "building a wall" ?
You're right! Imagine the imcompetence!
I'll be on the lookout for the black helicopters.
According to you, ~200,000 private sector jobs have been created and "Not a single one of these jobs produces a tradable good or service that can be exported"
Didn't you ever learn about absolutes?
When you say something that patently foolish it takes away any credibility the rest of your hallucination -um I mean- post still had.
People like you who support the campaign to impeach the president are SCUM. The government needs to play a bigger role in sensoring the media, society is becoming too liberal. This leads to the low class becoming more powerful and no longer knowing their place in this country.
> Ms. Martin is NOT under police investigation.
HIde and watch. Otherwise it makes zero sense. Been here done this stuff. Remember, I make my living doing this and I do it right smack in the Buckle of the Bible Belt. There ain't no chance I'd get sacked for a patron managing to sneak past the porn filters and the idea they would go a step higher and sack my boss is laughable. Therefore there IS more to this story.
> Assuming that "leftist" here means "anti-censorship", a typical
> right-wing misinterpretation of anyone who won't ban the books the
> extremists want banned.
No, I mean leftist in the sense of socialist moveon.org ACORN types. I mean leftist in the sense that the Texas Library Association had Ralph Nader keynoting with a totally over the top and overtly political campaign speech to raucus standing ovations. In TEXAS in 2004. In case it still eludes you, I'm talking about FSCKING TEXAS! I was there, I saw it. If there is a definition of 'out of the mainstream' that doesn't include a room with about 75% Naderites in TEXAS then please enlighten me what that phrase means on your planet.
When I'm at library functions I'm always aware that I'm a pilgrim in a very unholy land. Of moonbats.
Democrat delenda est