Here we go again… H.R. 5319: Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 is meant to “amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms.” Yep,
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick [R-PA] and others feel that schools and libraries shouldn’t allow kids access to blogs, MySpace, Friendster, wikis, and e-mail. Good grief!
The above link is to GovTrack which will allow you to receive bill updates via RSS. (Way cool!) There’s also a wiki dedicated to this bill.
via Travels with the State Librarian
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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