Schools receiving federal e-rate funding must now teach students "about appropriate online behavior."
In 2006, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA, H.R. 5319), which, had it also been passed by the Senate and signed by the President, would have required schools and libraries to block access to a broad selection of web content including "commercial Web sites that let users create Web pages or profiles or offer communication with other users via forums, chat rooms, e-mail or instant messaging." The bill would have blocked users from accessing social networking from schools or libraries, as well as access to a wide array of other content and technologies such as instant messaging, online email, wikis, and blogs.
"The American Library Association (ALA) named the Bill of Rights Institute a best free reference site of 2007 on October 9, 2007... Web sites were evaluated based on the quality of content on the webpage, availability, ease of use, whether the content is up-to-date. The ALA recognized the Bill of Rights Institute and other winners for the 'uniqueness of the resource as a whole.'"
The ALA-Children’s Book Council (CBC) Joint Committee, with cooperation from the ALSC’s Quicklists Consulting Committee, has created the four bibliographies below, "Building a Home Library," to provide guidance to parents, grandparents, and others interested in assembling a high-quality library for their children at home.
More than 300 librarians in town for the annual American Library Association conference spread out across Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, forgoing sightseeing in favor of public service.
At a packed session for academic librarians attending the annual meeting of the American Library Association, in Washington, the topic was how to help students who have learned many of their information gathering and analysis skills from video games apply that knowledge in the library. Speakers said that gaming skills are in many ways representative of a broader cultural divide between today’s col
American Library Association's copyright resources page. This page contains an array of resources describing copyright law and practical compliance instructions.
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H.R. 1120: Deleting Online Predators Act of 2007:
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms.
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Schools receiving federal e-rate funding must now teach students "about appropriate online behavior."
In 2006, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA, H.R. 5319), which, had it also been passed by the Senate and signed by the President, would have required schools and libraries to block access to a broad selection of web content including "commercial Web sites that let users create Web pages or profiles or offer communication with other users via forums, chat rooms, e-mail or instant messaging." The bill would have blocked users from accessing social networking from schools or libraries, as well as access to a wide array of other content and technologies such as instant messaging, online email, wikis, and blogs.
"The American Library Association (ALA) named the Bill of Rights Institute a best free reference site of 2007 on October 9, 2007... Web sites were evaluated based on the quality of content on the webpage, availability, ease of use, whether the content is up-to-date. The ALA recognized the Bill of Rights Institute and other winners for the 'uniqueness of the resource as a whole.'"
The ALA-Children’s Book Council (CBC) Joint Committee, with cooperation from the ALSC’s Quicklists Consulting Committee, has created the four bibliographies below, "Building a Home Library," to provide guidance to parents, grandparents, and others interested in assembling a high-quality library for their children at home.
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