It occurred to me that, holding copyrights to be near-inviolate, I probably shouldn't post the thoughts that will go into my LJ review, so this ends the excursion into Puppet and Dwarf. Too bad!

While on the ref desk yesterday I got a call from the local public librarian. (Yes, "the librarian" in the singular.) Seems a resident has instigated an official appeals process in order to force the p.l. to install internet filters, after having the disagreeable experience of seeing a patron surf porn sites. She's also presented her case to The People by writing a number of letters to the editor of the newspaper. The librarian was calling around to various area libraries to gather anecdotal evidence of the filters' inefficacy. Since we don't have a filter I wasn't able to help. (This case isn't related to CIPA, by the way, because the p.l. refused to take the federal I.T. money: principles aside, they would only have received $1,000 and the filters cost around $800.)