The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #61050 Message #980043
Posted By: Rapparee
09-Jul-03 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: What would you do?
Subject: RE: BS: What would you do?
And *that*, Walking Eagle, is one of the differences between public and academic libraries! If I tried to embarass some of the people who come in here they'd look at me like I was saying nothing at all.
The person on duty happened to be passing by the PC with the offending pictures and saw them on the screen -- just as anyone, of any age, passing by could. (Privacy screens were tried here, but while they do prevent people to the sides from viewing what's on the screen they do nothing to stop someone directly behind the screen from seeing what's on it, and the problem got worse instead of better.)
While I am a member of the American Library Association, I doubt that calling them would have been much help. They deal with the broad picture, not specifics -- unfortunately in circumstances such as this.
Calling my profs from grad school would have been really hard, since Case Western Reserve University, where I went, no longer has a School of Library and Information Science. Neither does Columbia, Northern Illinois University, Brigham Young, or many others. Too much cost for too little return for the Universities during the '80s and '90s.
(Come to think of it -- my high school no longer exists, my undergrad college changed its name, my grad school is gone, why, if my grade school ever goes under I won't know anything at all!!)