Mission Statement for Internet Use

The Internet make accessible a wealth of material that is personally, professionally, educationally and culturally enriching to individuals of all ages, and it enables the Library to provide information not available within the confines of its own collection.

Acceptable Use

The Internet is currently ungoverned and largely unregualt3ed, and offers access to some material that may be offensive and/or illegal. The Library will use filtering software to block access to constitutionally unprotected material—pornography and illegal content. Because the Internet is fluid, with access points and content changing rapidly and often unpredictably, no filtering can be 1 00% effective in blocking such material. Parents may with to supervise their children’s Internet sessions.

As all Internet workstations are in view of other patrons and staff, users may not display visual images containing pornography, obscenity, graphic violence or other images inappropriate in a public library setting. Acceptability of screen displays will be left to the discretion of library staff.

Guidelines for Public Internet Use

1. The Library will not provide e-mail services, hard drive space for setting up individual web pages, dial-up access to the Internet for remote Library patrons, listservs, new groups, on-line chatrooms or File Transfer Protocol.

2. Internet use by a patron is limited to one-half hour at a time.

3. Extension of the one-half hour limit may be granted at the library staff’s discretion and only if the computer does not need to be accessed by other patrons or library staff for the Internet or other resources.

4. Printing may be done. There is a fee of ten cents ($.1 0) per page for printing. Because of limited technical personnel patrons may not plug in their own laptops, but downloading of information onto personal disks is acceptable.

5. Only computer equipment and software owned and previously installed by the Springville Public Library may be used on Library computers. Adding, deleting or modifying the installed hardware, software or settings is not permitted. (This includes downloading and/or installing software from the Internet.) No personal files may be saved on the hard drive.

6. Internet access will be denied to anyone breaching this use policy.