It doesn't take a lot to look up porn just to get the librarian to react, what it takes a lot of guts to do is for the librarian not to react the way that is expected. When teens (or men) put porn on the screen for me to see as I walk by, I usually say "Honey, I'm married. Ain't nothing there I haven't seen before."
I'm a Librarian, and when exactly am I supposed to check the site from my station and enable it for the user. "My station" is used for checkout, check in , reserves, and reference. I am supposed to do this between supervising unattended children, breaking up fights, solving computer and copier problems, explaining the rules, and sometimes actually answering a reference question? Who comes first, the person who wants a site unblocked or the person who needs help finding a book? This AIN'T MY JOB to determing what you can and cannot see! You want a book this library doesn't carry, I can get it on loan. You want an Internet site, good for you. Telling you a site is O.K. is too much like parenting for me.
There are big liability issues for libraries, issues librarians have not been trained to deal with. There are already liability issues and have been in the past for the books and magazines a library stocks, the Internet is just the "hot topic" of the day. Libraries are routinely told they stock "evil" books. The difference is it doens't make the paper, just the City Council meeting.
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It doesn't take a lot to look up porn just to get the librarian to react, what it takes a lot of guts to do is for the librarian not to react the way that is expected. When teens (or men) put porn on the screen for me to see as I walk by, I usually say "Honey, I'm married. Ain't nothing there I haven't seen before."
I'm a Librarian, and when exactly am I supposed to check the site from my station and enable it for the user. "My station" is used for checkout, check in , reserves, and reference. I am supposed to do this between supervising unattended children, breaking up fights, solving computer and copier problems, explaining the rules, and sometimes actually answering a reference question? Who comes first, the person who wants a site unblocked or the person who needs help finding a book? This AIN'T MY JOB to determing what you can and cannot see! You want a book this library doesn't carry, I can get it on loan. You want an Internet site, good for you. Telling you a site is O.K. is too much like parenting for me.
There are big liability issues for libraries, issues librarians have not been trained to deal with. There are already liability issues and have been in the past for the books and magazines a library stocks, the Internet is just the "hot topic" of the day. Libraries are routinely told they stock "evil" books. The difference is it doens't make the paper, just the City Council meeting.