Chat 01/12/2012 Intellectual Freedom: Basic training for new staff and a refresher for the rest of us

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1 11:49:01 AM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! Handouts for today's webinar can be downloaded here (scroll to the bottom of the page): 11:53:26 AM from Kathleen Beasley to All Participants:! Hello, This is Kathleen Beasley from the Belmont Branch of the San Mateo County Library and my staff will be watching and listening to this webinar during their lunch 11:54:44 AM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! Hi Kathleen, welcome! 11:56:56 AM from Dee Clarkin to All Participants:! Dee Clarkin from National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD. Hi to all. 11:57:23 AM from Kathleen M Wade to All Participants:! Happy New Year, too! 11:57:49 AM from Lois Crump to All Participants:! Hi from Lois Crump Bath County Memorial Library in Owingsville, KY. 11:57:58 AM from Quiana Vidal to All Participants:! Hi! We have a group attending from the Marion County Public Library in Florida. 11:58:22 AM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! Greetings to all! 11:58:40 AM from Malinda Baker to All Participants:! Hello everyone from Malinda Baker at the Yolo County Library in CA 11:58:45 AM from Katelyn Widener to All Participants:! HI Ya'll, from Boone County Public Library, Burlington KY 11:59:05 AM from Alice Paterra to All Participants:! Alice from Worcester County Maryland, saying hi! 11:59:10 AM from Cassandra Lyons to All Participants:! Hello from Lexington Public Libraries (KY)! 11:59:26 AM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! Ready set almost go! 11:59:27 AM from Naomi Keppler to All Participants:! Hi from Naomi with Carroll County Public Library in Maryland!

2 11:59:34 AM from Laura Hughes to All Participants:! Hi everyone! This is great music to listen to. 11:59:38 AM from Naomi Keppler to All Participants:! Agreed 11:59:42 AM from Michael Johnson to All Participants:! Michael from Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore MD 11:59:43 AM from Sue Michul to All Participants:! Hello from the sunny Napa Valley, CA 11:59:44 AM from Amy Hauptman to All Participants:! Hi from the Palm Beach County Library System in Florida 11:59:59 AM from Terry Bosky to All Participants:! *waves* 12:00:04 PM from TRISTA EADEN to All Participants:! Hello from the Phoenix Public Library System! 12:00:10 PM from Susan Miller to All Participants:! Hi from Susan from Carroll County 12:00:14 PM from Susan Umpleby to All Participants:! Hi from Susan Umpleby at the Ontario City Library in S. CA 12:00:25 PM from Margarita Velazquez-Mercado to All Participants:! Hi from Volusia County, Florida 12:00:37 PM from Ryan McGinnis to All Participants:! Howdy, Ryan here, La Grande, OR 12:01:15 PM from Rosa Cesaretti to All Participants:! Hello, from Rosa Cesaretti in Pasadena, California 12:01:24 PM from Diane Kearney to All Participants:! Hello from Manassas, Virginia. 12:01:37 PM from Alyssa Diekman to All Participants:! Hello from Bradenton, Florida! 12:01:40 PM from Sondhaya Sritongsook to All Participants:! Hello, this is Sunny from Scripps Mercy Hospital Library! 12:02:02 PM from Robert Lovell to All Participants:

3 ! Hello from Robert Lovell, Fresno County (CA) library 12:03:15 PM from Infopeople Project to All Participants: 12:03:15 PM from Courtney Tingwall to All Participants: 12:03:16 PM from Cynthia Cohen to All Participants: 12:03:18 PM from Sondhaya Sritongsook to All Participants: 12:03:18 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! 12:03:20 PM from Cassandra Lyons to All Participants:! yep :) 12:03:21 PM from Amy Hauptman to All Participants: 12:03:24 PM from Susan Umpleby to All Participants: 12:03:25 PM from Alice Paterra to All Participants:! HI Mary! 12:03:27 PM from Katelyn Widener to All Participants: 12:03:29 PM from Laura Forshay to All Participants:! loud and clear 12:03:32 PM from Tiffani Pope to All Participants: 12:04:15 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! Catherine Lord's book: 12:05:02 PM from Robert Lovell to All Participants:! Yes 12:05:12 PM from Kathleen M Wade to All Participants:

4 12:05:12 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! Well over 20 people 12:05:13 PM from B Campos to All Participants: 12:05:17 PM from Mayra Rocha to All Participants:! did anyone write down the website from which to download the powerpoint from? 12:05:27 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! I take that back - over 30 12:05:59 PM from Alice Paterra to All Participants:! Help, I can't remember how to lower my henad once I've raised it! 12:06:43 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! If you'd like, type the title of the book(s) that were named. 12:07:04 PM from Susan Umpleby to All Participants:! It's Perfectly Normal, for one 12:07:10 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! Today's slides can be downloaded here: 12:07:24 PM from Sue Michul to All Participants:! HBO dvd series ROME 12:07:27 PM from Kristina Ronne to All Participants:! The Jenna Jameson book is a big one that I remember 12:07:29 PM from Infopeople Project to All Participants:! I can lower hands for everyone, but you can do it again by clicking on the hand again. 12:07:30 PM from Naomi Keppler to All Participants:! And Tango Makes Three 12:07:39 PM from Carrie Valdes to All Participants:! "Go the F to sleep" 12:07:56 PM from Diane Kearney to All Participants:! It was requested that I completely rearrange our shelving so that no other books were above the Koran.

5 12:07:57 PM from Susan Umpleby to All Participants:! Harry Potter books, too 12:08:12 PM from Craig Patterson to All Participants:! "Getting Jesus in the Mood" 12:08:14 PM from Alice Paterra to All Participants:! Graphic novels aimed at teens 12:08:15 PM from Max McMillan to All Participants:! DVDs - Pineapple Express, Birth of a Nation, Left Behind series, Queer as Folk, Adventures of Mark Twain 12:09:08 PM from Sue Michul to All Participants:! King and King 12:09:27 PM from Diane Kearney to All Participants:! The Worls is Flat 12:10:06 PM from Alice Paterra to All Participants:! photo display of 9/11 12:10:26 PM from Stacie Kiner to All Participants:! Edward Weston' 12:10:59 PM from Stacie Kiner to All Participants:! Edward Weston's photos. Objection to the nudes. 12:12:25 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! a brief summary of this case: 12:21:17 PM from Cassandra Lyons to All Participants:! I was a computer aide at our library for 9 months and we kicked a lot of people out for looking at porn. 12:21:32 PM from Lisa Varra to All Participants:! what is c-o-h again? 12:21:48 PM from Naomi Keppler to All Participants:! child porn, obscenity, and harmful materials 12:21:55 PM from Lisa Varra to All Participants:! thanks u 12:22:00 PM from Cassandra Lyons to All Participants:

6 ! child porn, obscenity, harmful to minors 12:22:59 PM from Dolly Frank to All Participants:! But the caveat for the removal of the CIPA filter is so the adult can do bona fide resarch??? 12:23:51 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! Helpful page to bookmark from Mary's website: 12:30:16 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! NCSL: 12:31:50 PM from Sue Michul to All Participants:! So is the Supreme Court saying that it is up to librarians to prevent kids from checking out R-rated movies if the parents request this? 12:32:05 PM from terryann lawler to All Participants:! only if they want to 12:32:19 PM from terryann lawler to All Participants:! she just said it was possible 12:32:35 PM from Kristina Ronne to All Participants:! I think it is saying that it would be acceptable for a library to go by the individual parents 12:32:52 PM from Kristina Ronne to All Participants:! wishes 12:37:10 PM from Denise Zielinski to All Participants:! what happened to the audio? 12:37:18 PM from Naomi Keppler to All Participants:! I can still hear 12:38:14 PM from Ryan McGinnis to All Participants:! Restart your session quickly...i had audio issues at first, but a restart of session fixed it. 12:38:31 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! Thanks Ryan - excellent advice! 12:39:13 PM from eileen oshea to All Participants:! You can also try closing the Audio Broadcast window and reopen it from the Communicate menu.

7 12:40:13 PM from Katelyn Widener to All Participants:! My Audio just cut out as well and all the new broadcast window says is "connecting" 12:40:24 PM from Ryan McGinnis to All Participants:! restart session 12:41:15 PM from Susan Umpleby to All Participants:! Always explain that we serve the needs of the entire community & must provides materials to reflect that 12:42:25 PM from terryann lawler to All Participants:! i always thank parents who are complaining for paying attention to what their children are reading/watching 12:42:29 PM from Patricia Rodriguez to All Participants:! lost sound 12:43:19 PM from Cindy Stohs to All Participants:! I like to have a copy of the pertaining policy in hand when I speak to a patron. 12:44:31 PM from TRISTA EADEN to All Participants:! I think that is a good thing to do Terry. It helps to diffuse a parent's anger or displeasure with material they might find inappropriate. 12:46:44 PM from Kristina Ronne to All Participants:! We have had a couple where a book was moved from one section to another 12:47:17 PM from Marcie Shaffer to All Participants:! in my experience customers just want to be heard and listened to. a civil discussion can be calming. 12:47:48 PM from Kristina Ronne to All Participants:! I don't actually know if we have had any formal challenges because our administation is in another building 12:48:19 PM from Lois Crump to All Participants:! When the computers are in the same spot, adults and children are within seeing distance of each computer. How do you deal with the adult web sites? 12:48:38 PM from Laura Hughes to All Participants:! i got disconnected and lost audio 12:48:40 PM from Kristina Ronne to All Participants:! If the library wants to take on that resposibility

8 12:49:10 PM from Katelyn Widener to All Participants:! just to clarify, on a national level there is no law to support libraries restricting R rated films accross the board from minors even though they could not be able to buy tickets to see the same movie in the theaters? 12:49:27 PM from Mary Claire Hutchinson to All Participants:! What about pornography involving adults? Do you respond to patron complaints if there is not a policy in place? 12:49:36 PM from Amy Hauptman to All Participants:! An adult card is required in order check out anything other than a G rated DVD. 12:49:53 PM from Kristina Ronne to All Participants:! We have a policy that basically says that if an action prevents another user from using the library comfortable it can be considered bad behavior and a patron can be asked to refrain 12:50:23 PM from Cassandra Lyons to All Participants:! Is there a distinction between "may lead to illegal behavior" and actually advocating the illegal behavior? Are both protected? 12:50:31 PM from amy shipley to All Participants:! due to the high fines on dvds, we require parental permission for kids to check out all dvds. We don't restrict based on the rating, just the fact that the fines are high on dvds. 12:50:45 PM from amy shipley to All Participants:! i wonder if that's restricting free speech? 12:51:24 PM from Steve Carmody to All Participants:! I've had a couple interruptions so sorry if this has already been covered-what about sexually graphic pictures/drawings in a sexual education book on adult materials shelves in a public library? any thoughts? thanks 12:51:45 PM from Susan Umpleby to All Participants:! Out library limits checking out movies to 18 years & older. Parents can give limited video privileges to their kids for TV & documentary videos. 12:52:29 PM from Laura Hughes to All Participants:! This has been a very interesting topic but I must go. Looking forward to more future webinars. 12:53:06 PM from Mayra Rocha to All Participants:! Our policy only allows adults to check out DVDs in general

9 12:56:40 PM from Marcie Shaffer to All Participants:! your local state library association may also be a source for intellec freedom info 12:57:00 PM from Carrie Valdes to All Participants:! Based on your slide, adults have the right to access materials harmful to minors. Do they have that right in a public library where there are children present? 12:58:42 PM from Yolanda Cardenas-Parra to All Participants:! we only allow adults to check out R rated movies, is that right? 12:58:46 PM from Susan Umpleby to All Participants:! Thank you for a webinar for a great webinar. Unortunately I have to sign off now. 12:59:53 PM from Lois Crump to All Participants:! Thank you. 12:59:59 PM from Amy Hauptman to All Participants:! Thank you so much. 13:00:02 PM from Courtney Tingwall to All Participants:! Thank you! This was very informative! 13:00:06 PM from Carrie Valdes to All Participants:! Thank you... excellent presentation! 13:00:11 PM from Catherine Lord to All Participants:! Thanks Mary--great job! 13:00:12 PM from Amy Hauptman to All Participants:! I learned a lot 13:00:15 PM from Leslie Brown to All Participants:! Thank you very much! 13:00:36 PM from Tiffani Pope to All Participants:! Thanks Mary well informed!!! 13:00:44 PM from Kevin Fish to All Participants:! Thank you very much. Very informative. Long live libraries. 13:01:04 PM from Quiana Vidal to All Participants:! Thanks 13:01:04 PM from Patricia Rodriguez to All Participants:! Enjoyed Webiner lost sound and was able to use phone and keep up with Q&A on chat. Thanks

10 13:01:04 PM from Cynthia Cohen to All Participants:! Thank you, Mary and Infopeople. An informative, and important webinar! 13:03:12 PM from Lois Crump to All Attendees:! Where do we go to do the survey and to get our certication. 13:05:25 PM from Patricia Rodriguez to All Attendees:! where do we go for survey & certificate? Lost connection part way and used phone to finish.