Rap

I'm the head honcho in the evening here at our library. We have the benefit of a campus security officer now who can ( and does )check what the users are viewing. Our problem? Students can say they are doing research for their class on human sexuality. At one point, the professors of this class would give us names of the students enrolled in the class. Haven't seen that list lately. We have a set policy regarding use of the terminals, but few of our reference librarians enforce it.

Our reference terminals are in plain view on our main floor. I once made a very strong comment to one of our offenders that what SHE was doing is against library use policy and is not socially acceptable. I didn't think that a new shade of embarrassed red was possible, but I was wrong. I wish people would realize how powerful public peer pressure is.

I am as conflicted as every other librarian. And our conflict is what these porn producers play on.