Controlling access to the Internet in UK public libraries
Controlling access to the Internet in UK public libraries
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控制英国公共图书馆的互联网访问
DOI：
10.1108/10650750010354166
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发表时间：
2000
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通讯作者：
T. Oulton
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作者：
Jonathan Willson;T. Oulton
检讨英国公共图书馆提供互联网服务的政策和做法。本文报告了一项问卷调查的结果，该调查是图书馆和信息委员会资助的公共场所、私人空间（PuPPS）范围研究的一部分，该研究对公共图书馆的隐私、匿名和保密进行了研究。百分之九十六的受访者表示，他们有供公众使用的互联网设施。许多答复者表示，他们有关于提供和获取电子和印刷材料的政策文件。大多数图书馆（71%）对公共电脑实施某种形式的控制，而少数图书馆（56%）对员工专用电脑实施某种形式的控制。目前可用于过滤和拦截的软件的可靠性和有效性是受访者关注的主要原因。强制使用控制软件的主要原因似乎是担心接触到露骨的色情材料。这类软件的使用通常是广泛的公司政策的一部分，旨在保护地方当局免受公众或员工的不利批评。对公共图书馆的受访者来说，隐私、匿名和保密问题比控制公众访问互联网上不适当的材料更受关注。
Policies and practices of UK public libraries in providing access to Internet services are reviewed. Results of a questionnaire survey conducted as part of the Library and Information Commission funded PuPPS (public places, private spaces) scoping study of privacy, anonymity and confidentiality in public libraries, are reported. Ninety‐six per cent of respondents indicated that they had Internet facilities for the public. Many respondents indicated that they had policy documents on provision of and access to electronic and print materials. The majority of libraries (71 per cent) imposed some form of control on public access computers and a smaller majority (56 per cent) on staff only computers. The reliability and effectiveness of software currently available for filtering and blocking was a major cause for concern amongst respondents. The major reason for the imposition of control software appeared to be concern about access to sexually explicit material. The use of such software is frequently part of a broad corporate policy, designed to protect the local authority from adverse criticism by public or staff. Issues of privacy, anonymity and confidentiality were of lesser concern to public library respondents than control of public access to inappropriate material on the Internet.