Yes, of course it does and it makes an handsome profit for itself in so
doing so it's hardly an act of altruism. The issue you're raising isn't
whether or not people have access to pornography but whether or not this
material should be made accessible in libraries. What people get up to in
their own homes is, within limits, their own affair. What they get up to in
a public place supported and subsidised by the public purse is quite another
matter.
Steven Heywood
Systems Manager
Rochdale Library Service
Wheatsheaf Library
Baillie Street
Rochdale, England OL16 1JZ
Tel: 01706 864967
Fax: 01706 864992
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> From: Martin Dudley[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: Martin Dudley
> Sent: 22 September 2000 19:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Counting electronic enquiries
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> [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> > I don't think the point that I was making has been understood - the
> monitoring, i.e. statistics, is not affected by any filtering that may be
> in use. What I stated was that there does not seem to be any softwware
> that will give simple useable statistics for levels of usage in whatever
> format you may, or may not, require!
> >
> > Filtering is another topic altogether and the only filtering we
> currently employ is to prevent access to pornographic sites.
> >
> > Graham Dash
> >
>
> Why - 'pornography', like postcards and film before - finances
> development doesn't it?
>
> Martin
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> >
> >
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