Filtering Bibliography

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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