WEB FILTERING:
POLICIES, SOFTWARE,
STAFF TRAINING AND CIPA
Practical ways that libraries can plan and implement the Children’s Internet Protection Act

Satellite-Delivered Teleconference March 12, 2004  

CIPA and the Law

Bocher, Robert. “CIPA and Compliance with the Supreme Court’s Filtering Decision.” 07 Aug. 2003. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. <http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dltcl/pld/cipafaqlite.html>

Bocher, Robert and Mary Minow. “CIPA: Key Issues for Decision Makers.” 31 Aug. 2003. WebJunction.
<http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=2101>

Bocher, Robert. “A CIPA Toolkit.” 15 Aug. 2003. Library Journal. <http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA315151>

“Children and the Internet: Laws Relating to Filtering, Blocking and Usage Policies in Schools and Libraries.” 09 Jan. 2004. National Conference of State Legislatures.
<http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/CIP/filterlaws.htm>

“Children’s Internet Protection Act.” 2001.
<http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/universal_service/chipact.doc>

“Children’s Internet Protection Act; Neighborhood Internet Protection Act (NCIPA)” 2001.
<http://sussex.njstatelib.org/njlib/erate/ucneighb.htm>

"CIPA." American Library Association. 2003.
<http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=washcipa>

“Eligible Services List.” 10 Oct. 2003.
<http://www.sl.universalservice.org/reference/eligible.asp>

“Guidelines for Completing the Internet Safety Certification for Applicant Libraries Program Year 2004 Funds.”
<http://www.statelib.wa.gov/libraries/libDev/technology/GuideComplete2004.pdf>

“Internet Safety Certification for Applicant Public Libraries Program Year 2004 Funds.”
<http://www.statelib.wa.gov/libraries/libDev/technology/CertIndiv2004.pdf>

Minow, Mary. “Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Legal Definitions of Child Pornography, Obscenity and ‘Harmful to Minors’.” 08 Aug. 2003.
<http://www.llrx.com/features/updatecipa.htm>

Minow, Mary. “Public Libraries and the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA): Legal Sources.” 19 Jan. 2004.
<http://www.llrx.com/features/cipabiblio.htm>

Supreme Court of the United States. “United States Et Al. V. American Library Association, Inc., Et Al.” 23 June 2003.
<http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/02-361.pdf>

Evaluating Filter Software

“Filtering Checklist.” Washington State Library.
<http://www.wla.org/cipa/filteringChecklist.html>

“Filtering FAQ.” Illinois Century Network.
<http://www.illinois.net/services/filtering/faq.htm>

“Filtering Products.” Kansas State Library.
<http://skyways.lib.ks.us/KSL/libtech/cipa/filter.html>

“Filtering Technology.” The Galecia Group. 19 Feb. 2004.
<http://libraryfiltering.org/>

Hansen, Derek. “CIPA: Which Filtering Software to Use?” 31 Aug. 2003. WebJunction.
<http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=2102>

Hansen, Derek. “Internet Filtering.” Feb. 2004.
<http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~shakmatt/filters.html>

“See No Evil: How Internet Filters Affect the Search for Online Health Information.” Kaiser Family Foundation. 2002.
<http://www.kff.org/entmedia/20021210a-index.cfm>

Staff Policies

"Checklist for Creating an Internet Use Policy." American Library Association. 2003.
<http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/iftoolkits/litoolkit/checklistcreating.htm>

“Disabling the N2H2 Filter.” Greenville County Library System. 30 Nov. 2003. <http://www.cod.edu/teleconf/webfilter/GreenvillePL_N2H21.pdf>

“More on the N2H2 Authorized Override.” Greenville County Library System. 21 Nov. 2003. <http://www.cod.edu/teleconf/webfilter/GreenvillePL_N2H2_Override.pdf>

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