[cyclotic]

It's great to see a library who is more concerned with decency and propriety than in keeping with the liberal agenda.

My daughter works for this library so that makes it extra important to me.

[Always Right]

The American Library Association has to be disappointed. They believe in readily available porn and complete privacy for all ages.

[theDentist]

I'm sure the ACLU will be filing suit shortly... 'specially for anyone wishing access to pedophilic sites.

[Mac1]

Am I missing something? I thought libraries would have some sort of blocking software - Weblocker or other. This also block out things like Ogrish and the like.

[Uncledave]

Just put the PC's in the most visible and busiest part of the library: right near the entrance with the monitors facing the entrance way and front desk.

[GOPJ]

My daughter works for this library so that makes it extra important to me.

It's great that your daughter is part of a group trying to do right. But the ACLU will trump her traditional values - and porn peddlers, drunks, and criminals will ultimately win control of libraries.

It's time to close libraries down. Have you noticed library bulletin boards filled with liberal propaganda? And only liberal propaganda? Who hasn't?

And the stuff about poor kids not getting to read? Take a look at who's in the library... It would be cheaper to pay Barns & Noble money to give books to anyone under the age of 12 - three free books a year and a subsidized children's reading room in store... We'd save billions and do a better job by the children. A private bookstore will know how to keep porn out of the view of 6 year olds. Time to dump the library system -it's too little for too much.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It's not so much the porn sites as cleaning up after what they do under their raincoats.;-)

[fishtank]

"...said library Director Donald E. Worrell Jr...."


Must be related to Ernest P. Worrell.

[Question_Assumptions]

Did your daughter consider filing a "hostile workplace" lawsuit while the porn was visible to library employees? I mean, if her boss or another employee left pornographic pictures on her desk, that would be harassment, right? Why do the library patrons get to expose library employees to stuff like that? At the very least, such a suit would pit federal laws allowing pornography against federal laws prohibiting a hostile workplace, would would be fun to watch the courts sort out. It would also be interesting to see if courts have the guts to tell female employees of libraries that viewing pornography is part of their job.

[RobRoy]

>>Some libraries have Internet terminals in separate rooms for adults<<

Private booths. Cool!

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[Dumb_Ox]

It's great to see a library who is more concerned with decency and propriety than in keeping with the liberal agenda.

It'd be a cleaner break with liberalism if they just started kicking out the pervs and reporting minors to their parents, rather than take away access from everybody else.

[Billthedrill]

Porn? On the Internet? Who knew?

[plan2succeed.org]

I am very critical of the American Library Association for pushing inappropriate material on children. The ALA goes out of its way to instruct librarians how to fool the public. Most librarians are not so radical and militant as the ALA. But there are good librarians. This article illustrates yet another.

Imagine a librarian willing to stand up against the ALA to make such radical statements as, "There seemed to be a sudden increase in that kind of activity, and it was really bothering me. I thought something needed to be done." In another shocking statement rarely made for fear of retribution from the ALA, this same library director said, "We have families and kids who have witnessed some of these activities going on and they were just shocked." THIS LIBRARY DIRECTOR OUGHT TO GET AN AWARD FROM HIS TOWN GOVERNMENT!

Here is the official stance of the ALA, as spoken by its de facto leader, Judith Krug: "I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see." Here's another example of what this leader of the ALA said, "Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it ... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out."

In such an atmosphere, it is easy to see how the library director in this story has seriously jeopardized his career by making statements in favor of protecting his community from harm, directly opposed to the ALA's statements in opposition to community interests.

I'm serious. Someone nominate this man for recognition is his town. Librarians with the guts to make statements opposed to the radical aims of the ALA are few and far between.

SafeLibraries.org - Are Children Safe in Public Libraries?

[RobbyS]

Thanks to the sureme court, liberty turns into license. License leads to disorder, so liberty has to be restricted.

[2harddrive]

However, the blocking software keeps out the NRA's website, but NOT the Brady Bunch's! (the gun banners)