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Omaha Trustee Favors Blocking, Boston-StyleWorried about Omaha Public Library's culpability should a youngster click on cybersmut there, a trustee has proposed limiting youngsters' surfing sessions to filtered computers in the children's room. Currently, the library offers open age-neutral Internet access. Fashioned after the Boston Public Library policy instituted early last year, George Achola's proposal has an unfiltered-access loophole for minors with written parental permission. "It is moral, political, and legal suicide to put [the Internet] out there without a filter, when you're talking about children," an August 6 Omaha World-Herald story reported Achola as saying at an August 5 board meeting. Reacting to the prospect that librarians would have to determine which application Omaha youngsters were using each time they sat down at one of the library's WebPAC-equipped machines, librarian Pam Scott pointed out, "At Boston, they have dedicated terminals." Trustees have given OPL staff several months to examine how they might best monitor minors' Internet use. Posted August 17, 1998. |
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