1. BCLA Intellectual Freedom Committee & Young Adult and Children’s Services PNLA Conference August 12 th , 2010 – 2:00 – 3:15 pm Track: Freedom and Access
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Notas del editor
The IP blocking process is simple as long as the IT department for the school district or public library knows the IP addresses that need to be blocked. With the IP addresses block list specified, the IT department can expect a script to be matching each incoming connection's IP addresses against the block list entries. All users with IP addresses not featured in the ban list will be granted instant access to the library
URL filtering enables IT departments to monitor and control website access and Internet use to all library computers in a school district or to all libraries in a public system. It can also block access to certain audio or video media files
In its simplest form, catch-all filtering blocks words or parts of words that are part of a list. As an example, let's use the word "sex". The word itself will be blocked but also combinations of word that include “sex”. So catch-all filtering would block a search for the word "Essex" since it contains "sex". The results can be viewed as positive for the IT department from the point of view of security or negative and for the annoyed librarian and his or her clients.
On 17 May 1999, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued a media release titled “CRTC Won’t Regulate the Internet” stating, among other things, that: "The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced today that it will not regulate new media services on the Internet. After conducting an in- depth review under the Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act beginning last July, the CRTC has concluded that the new media on the Internet are achieving the goals of the Broadcasting Act and are vibrant, highly competitive and successful without regulation. The CRTC is concerned that any attempt to regulate Canadian new media might put the industry at a competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace."
Access to the Internet in BC school libraries is through the Provincial Learning Network (PLN). They offer basic filtering to school districts across the province and each individual district can add to the number and type of sites that can be blocked. One issue that has been at the forefront of school libraries lately is access to social networking websites like Facebook and students wasting time. In most cases, students were able to bypass any attempt to block Facebook by going to a proxy server.
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