The books I chose this week were all located using the MCC Library Online Catalog. Two of them are reference books, and one I had already checked out for another project.
Carson, Bryan. The Law of Libraries and Archives. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
There is a chapter in this book that goes into detail about the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the legal rulings and opinions that pertain to it. The opinions for each of the Supreme Court justices are given, along with explanations for their interpretations. This will be very helpful to me when I explain the background of my thesis and research question. The book also reviews the Act and the way it affects all public libraries.
Kravitz, Nancy. Censorship and the School Library Media Center. Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2002.
As the title states, this book deals mainly with censorship. There is a section dealing with electronic resources that gives basic information about filtering. It lists the four main filtering options for schools, and has a full page of products available that have been reviewed by Consumer Reports. There are numerous links given for Internet Service Providers and Alternate Resources reprinted from Smartparent.com. Many of these links will be useful for my research.
Smith, Mark. "Filtering Considerations." Neal-Schuman Internet Policy Handbook for Libraries. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1999. 75-98.
This book devotes an entire chapter to the pros and cons of filtering. The author includes information about relevant documents and rulings, and covers some of the choices available as far as filtering decisions go. There is a section detailing how the various software packages work, and a list of some of the major vendors. The part most interesting to me covers what some libraries choose to do as an alternative to filtering.
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