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Friday, January 11, 2002
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101543,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_nbs_hl Library Web filtering ruffles feathers By Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet News Libraries installed blocking software at a frantic pace last year, according to a new report, a move that could alarm free-speech advocates trying to fight mandatory filtering laws. The Library Journal, a national library publication, reported this week that 43 percent of libraries had filtering software on their Internet-connected computers in 2001, a jump from just 31 percent a year earlier.... On a separate note, the study said that Internet-related spending among libraries has nearly doubled in the past four years, to 4.2 percent of budgets from 2.2 percent in 1998....
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