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

[Diedre Conkling]

In the group’s press release they indicate that they are not only
interested in going to a nationwide level with the complaints and law suits
but also want to do the same with Gale and Overdrive.  I’m sure they would
be happy to add Kanopy.



On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:35 AM Tony Greiner <anthony.greiner at pcc.edu>
wrote:

> Interesting and upsetting.  The complainers are zealots, and the Cherry
> Creek School Board has no backbone or integrity.  Out of curiousity, I
> replicated some of the searches cited in the Denver Post article and found
> some materials some people might be upset about, (reviews of sex toys) but
> nothing I would call hardcore porn, or even porn.
>
> Given the prevalence of Internet porn, the idea of young people looking
> into Ebsco for stimulation is ludicrous.  Heck, they might also go back
> into the stacks to find old editions of National Geographic.  (And for you
> older readers, the Sears catalog.)
>
> There are some streaming videos that will raise some eyebrows in Kanopy,
> recently subscribed to by Multnomah County Library and Washington County
> Libraries.  That will be a harder defense for free-speech advocates, so it
> is important to win this one in Colorado.
>
> Tony Greiner, Librarian/ Portland Community College, Oregon
> 971-722-5333. anthony.greiner at pcc.edu
>
> "If people can learn to hate, they can be taught to love."  Barack Obama,
> Mandela Day Speech, July 17, 2018.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:56 AM Perry Stokes <director at bakerlib.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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-colorado-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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>>
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