Porny, porn, porn

Do you know how effin' busy I'd be if my job required this?! I can think of one patron that we'd have to kick out the minute they walked up to the desk to watch a movie (I have to tell our students to get me if he needs help with his sometimes "uncomfortable" subject searches)...and our anime section would likely need to be weeded. You know, it is hard enough to explain to people how to print a website page (use "print preview," for all that is holy) or how to search for a movie title, I can't imagine trying to explain what they could or couldn't look at on the web. Besides, as the American Library Association, says, "libraries are not the hotbed of looking at porn sites." Hee.

Policing porn is not part of the job description

Two uniformed men strolled into the main room of the Little Falls library in Bethesda one day last week and demanded the attention of all patrons using the computers. Then they made their announcement: The viewing of Internet pornography was forbidden.