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As the World Wide Web becomes an increasingly useful research tool, more and more public libraries are offering Internet access. As libraries have become wired, the issues of access, censorship, filtering, and "indecency" which have been swirling around the Internet as a whole, have focused on these libraries as well. At issue is whether it is a library's responsibility to censor or monitor the sites which users may access on its computers.
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"Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest,
information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the
library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin,
background, or views of those contributing to their creation."
The First Article of the Library Bill of Rights
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