A friend is a librarian in Plymouth, MA.
She doesn't care for the union's policies on library pornography, but has never restricted its being presented openly on computer screens. They've called the cops on some perverts, (men in big coats) but no arrests have resulted.
You’d be sickened by what goes on in a public library. I work in one in a large Northeast Ohio city. Entertainment DVDs are checked out more than books. We have sex manuals, soft-core porn and dope smoking handbooks in our circulating collection. This is in a neighborhood branch, not even the main branch downtown! There is almost no secuity and it’s mostly a free recreation center and not what a library is intended to be. This is a dreadful incident to happen to the child but notice that the article said the mother was using a computer. I see that all the time; the kids are ignored. I’ve seen babies left in their strollers, crying their eyes out, while the moms sit next to them, eyes glued to the computer. The staff says and does nothing. Political correctness and liberalism dominate. There is an unspoken rule not to offend the patrons because they will register and vote in favor of the next funding levy. The sad fact about that is that most of the patrons live in public or low-rent housing and won’t be contributing to the tax base anyway. I don’t ever see the situation ever changing.