Re: Returned mail: Host unknown

[Nelson <nelsonb@SLS.LIB.IL.US>]

Richard,
  We are not pushing children into pornography with the internet any more
than we do with books.  Our reponsibility is to provide informational
retrieval education and information itself.  We must be aware of what is
being searched in the internet or in books in our libraries.  We do that
with books with our selection policy.  With the internet, we use an AUP
and parental consent to have students on the Internet.  Most of the
internet is harmless.  Therefore, we do not shackle the whole beast
because of a problem somewhere.  When students are at home, they are
under their parents' care.  We do not control what they read, watch on
TV, or see on the Internet.  That is their parents' responsibility and we
hope they do their job well.  We also hope they have given the little
tykes some direction as to ethics.  We cannot control them nor do we want to.
  We are in the business of getting information out to people, not of
restricting it.  To have Congress try to define what should be seen and
not seen is ludicrous and impossible.  We are the information specialists
and must fight to ensure that people have access to knowledge.

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