Librarian James Schmidt Named to
Commission on Online Child Protection
C. James Schmidt, a professor at the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science, has been appointed to the Commission on Online Child Protection by Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.). The commission, which was established with the passage of the Child Online Protection Act last year, is charged with identifying “technological or other methods that will help reduce access by minors to material that is harmful to minors on the Internet.”
Schmidt, who has served as library director at the State University of New York/Albany and Brown University, has been a chair of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee and has served on the Technology and Access Committee of ALA’s Library and Information Technology Association.
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) allowed their Democratic counterparts to each make three appointments. The 19-member commission also includes representatives from Internet-filtering companies, Internet service providers, Internet labeling groups, portal and search-engine companies, academia, and online-content providers.
Posted November 8, 1999.
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