A filtering survey
Public-Access Computer Systems Forum
From: Kris Kepler <kri...@ccsd.edu>
Subject: Re: A filtering survey
Dear Mr. Pasternack,
I apologize if you were offended by our survey, but that was not our
intent at all! We do not feel that this survey is biased at all. We do
ask why the filters are used, and part of the reason we are conducting this
survey is because some of us are for filtering, while some of us are not.
We made a choice of "never" in question #7 because of this.
We have received a lot of wonderful, objective surveys in our research
and
we hope more people will respond to our survey.
Our goal is to prove or negate that filters and censorship occurs more
often in school library media centers, but we want to hear from all
librarians.
Kris
kke...@ccsd.edu
At 01:54 PM 3/25/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:18:18 -0500
>From: Howard Pasternack <Howard_P...@brown.edu>
>Subject: Re: A filtering survey
>While I am against filtering, I am also against shoddy library research.
>This questionnaire is highly biased. I don't know what the "thesis" in the
>opening paragraph refers to, but hopefully it is not sponsored by a library
>school.
>
>Take a look at question 5A about "using filter software to censor the
>Internet". Nowhere does this questionnaire ask whether the respondent's
>library uses filtering software and if so, why it uses filtering software.
>Or which of the reasons the respondent agrees with.
>
>Or the phrasing in question 7 which assumes that the filtering software
>blocks access to legitimate research and requires the respondent to answer
>negatively.
>
>I don't want to start filtering debates on this listserv. But I would hope
>that any questionnaire which tries to survey librarians opinions on this
>topic does so objectively.
>
>Howard Pasternack
>Brown University
>
>