Use of the Internet at libraries and schools - the pros and cons of limitation

• Authors: Keszthelyi A.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

In certain cases of the use of the Internet, the need to limit the quantity of data loadable and/or the content to be seen by individual users is justifiable. The study deals with the technical, legal and ethical issues of such limitation in the general context of the right to unhindered access to the World Wide Web, and in two special environments: public libraries and schools. These institutions provide public access and may define some rules of 'proper use', if economic or ethical reasons make it necessary. Various practices of limiting the quantity of downloaded data, as well as methods of content filtering (for users under age) are presented, with the reservation, however, that despite all these attempts, the issue remains extremely problematic. The author presents a 'home-made' solution that is being developed at the Technical College of Budapest. The method is based on subsequent control of access log file data, but as the users in the computer rooms cannot be identified and named, no personal data are involved in the process.

Keywords

EN

INTERNET USE; SCHOOLS

Discipline

• LIBRARY_&_INFORMATION_SCIENCE: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE

• Publisher: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, National Technical Information Centre and Library (BME OMIKK)
• Journal: Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 379-384
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Keszthelyi A.

• A. Keszthelyi, address not given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04HUAAAA0019421