Safety on the Information Superhighway:
Is There an Internet Filter in Your Future?
Internet Filtering Bibliography
Articles
Burt, David. "In Defense of Filtering." American Libraries 28 (August 1997): 11-12.
Clyde, Laurel A. "Infotech: Censorship or Protection? Children and Access to the Internet." Emergency Librarian 24 (Jan/Feb.1997): 48-50.
Ebbs, Geoffrey and Howard Rheingold. "Censorship on the Information Highway." Internet Research 7:1 (1997): 59-60.
Glick, Andrea. "The CDA is gone, but your troubles may not be." School Library Journal 43:8 (1997): 15.
Mason, Marilyn Gell. "Sex, Kids, and the Public Library." American Libraries 28 (Jane/July 1997): 104.
McGee, William H. J. "The Communication Decency Act and Your Library." Texas Library Journal 72 (Summer 1996): 64-68.
Oder, Norman. "Globe Columnist: Kids Filtering O.K." Library Journal 122 (August 1997): 13-16.
Oder, Norman. "Krug's Toughest Fight?" Library Journal 122 (May 1997): 38-41.
Olson, Renee. "Group puts Net Filters Under Microscope." School Library Journal 43: (1997): 12.
Perkins, Mark. "Barriers to Technical Solutions: Institutional, Policy and Legal Barriers to Information Access." Information Development 12 (September 1996): 149-154.
Schneider, Karen G. "Selecting Internet Filtering Software: Buyer Beware." American Libraries 28 (May 1997): 84.
Schuyler, Michael. "Filters: It's Not About porn, Stupid!" Computers in Libraries 17 (October 1997): 31-33.
Schuyler, Michael. "When does Filtering Turn into Censorship?" Computers in Libraries 17 (May 1997): 34-51.
Young, Sherry. "Sexually-explicit Materials via the Internet: Ethical Concerns for the Library Profession." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 23 (January 1997): 49-50.
Web Sites
- Access to Electronic Information, Services, and Networks: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights
http://www.ala.org/oitp/ebillrits.html
- ALA's interpretation regarding electronic information.
- ALA's Filtering Resolution
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/filt_res.html
- A copy of ALA's newly issued resolution.
- ALA's Great Sites for Kids and Parents
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/
- ALA's initiative to suggest wonderful web sites
- Cyberspace Law
http:///www.ssrn.com/CyberLaw/lawpaper.html
- A web site maintained by Larry Lessig which includes many papers, including "Rating the Net" by Jonathan Weinberg and "Freedom of Speech, Shielding Children, and Transcending Balancing" by Eugene Volokh.
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://www.epic.org/free_speech/censorware/
- Contains many articles, including "Filters and the Public Library: A Legal and Policy Analysis" by Mary Minow, a copy of the text of the Communications Decency Act, and the Supreme Court's decision on the CDC.
- Eugene Volokh's site
http:///www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh/harass/
- A good legal web site.
- Filtering Facts
http://www.filteringacts.org
- Maintained by David Burt, a strong proponent of filters in libraries.
- FirstMonday
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_10/bastian/index.html
- A peer reviewed electronic journal which contains the article "Filtering the Internet in American Public Libraries: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope."
- Intellectual Freedom Action News
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/
- ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom's Index page. You can find summaries of back issues of the OIF's Action News including filtering articles in the May and July 1997 issues.
- The Internet Censorship FAQ
http://www.spectacle.org/freespch/faq.html
- Includes information on the Communications Decency Act and the "Miller" standard.
- The Internet Filter Assessment project
http://www.bluehighways.com/tifap/
- The web site run by Karen Schneider which is assessing various filters and their implication.
- Libraries and Filtering: John McChesney's Hot Seat
http://www.hotwire.com/synapse/hotseat/97/42/transcript2a.html
- An online interview by John McChesney with Ann Symons, president-elect of ALA, Karen Schneider, founder of the Internet Filtering Assessment Project, and Karen Coyle, Western regional director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. The 10-page transcript reports on their conversation.
- Monroe County Public Library Internet and Computer Use Policy
http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/general_info/computer_policies.html
- A sample of a Internet use policy.
Bibliography prepared by Neal Wyatt, Chair, Intellectual Freedom Committee
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