CIPA Deadline Looms, Large PLs in Poorer Areas Squeezed

摘要

As the July 1 deadline approaches for implementing the Children's Internet Protec-tion Act (CIPA), an informal LJ survey suggests that the libraries with the most to lose―large libraries in poorer jurisdictions―are the most likely to comply. CIPA ties receipt of E-rate and Library Service and Technology Act funds for Internet access to filtering all workstations―including those used by staff―and E-rate discounts are linked to poverty. Nearly all the large metro libraries in Florida will comply, said Charles Parker, chair of the American Library Association's (ALA) E-rate Task Force. Donna Nicely, director of the Nashville Public Library and vice chair "of the Urban Libraries Council (ULC), said her library will comply and "my sense is that other ULC libraries are doing the same." The Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, directed by ALA president Carla Hay-den, will comply, saving $370,000. The El Paso PL, TX, directed by ALA president-elect Carol Brey-Casiano, does not yet receive E-rate funds for Internet connections, so it need not comply.