[OLA-IF-News] EBSCO porn lawsuit in CO

Perry Stokes director at bakerlib.org
Fri Oct 12 11:23:07 PDT 2018


MUST READ: Here is an excellent breakdown and rebuttal of the Colorado EBSCO
lawsuit by James LaRue, Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom.

https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=16002

"...In short, this is a staggering successful censorship effort directed
against the public sector. Just a handful of parents, armed with the utterly
spurious research and outrageous accusations of a national faith-based
pressure group, accomplishes something that does present a threat to our
children: It deprives them of a current tool for research that guides them
to curated materials from authoritative sources evaluated by educators and
subject matter experts."

Perry Stokes | Library Director 

Baker County Library District

 

 

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This week, a Colorado parent group announced it is suing the state library
consortium with allegations that EBSCO databases in schools provide access
to "substantial amounts of easily accessible, hardcore pornography".

 

The Denver Post has an article here:
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/10/pornography-is-not-education-sues-colo
rado-library-consortium/. 

 

Most libraries subscribe to databases that enable access to thousands of
scholarly and popular news, magazine, and journal articles and e-books for
research projects. The State Library of Oregon currently has a statewide
service contract with Gale for statewide database services.

 

It will be interesting to see if the Colorado case has any merit, and if so,
how content providers respond.

 

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