Tuesday, February 17, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Internet-filtering proposal shouldn't affect KU libraries
By Aaron Knopf
By Aaron Knopf
aknopf@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
University libraries probably will not be affected by a U.S. Senate bill requiring content-filtering software on library computers connected to the Internet.
The bill, introduced by Sen. John McCain of Arizona, would affect schools and libraries that receive a new, federal subsidy for telecommunications expenses, including Internet connectivity. These institutions would be required to use content-filtering software on their Internet computers to restrict minors from accessing "inappropriate" material. The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on the bill last week.
"I doubt that anything in the Senate bill would affect KU," said Vice Chancellor William Crowe.
Crowe said that filtering software was not used on Internet computers
in University libraries and that the libraries expected patrons to access only material that was protected under the law.
"We are a community that, at its heart, is responsible for the free flow of information," Crowe said. "We generate and communicate ideas and work hard to protect that process."
Local school boards and library boards would determine which material should be filtered at the boards' institutions.
The bill would require schools to use filters on all Internet computers. Libraries would have to have at least one computer with filtered access.
The bill could affect the Lawrence Public Library, said Bruce Flanders, library director.
Flanders said the Lawrence Public Library had applied for the federal subsidy, which could provide as much as a 40 percent discount for
the library's telecommunications costs. The library, which already receives free Internet access through a local Internet service provider, has one Internet-accessible computer and plans to add two more this year. Flanders said.
"We have not had anyone request that we provide access only through filtered terminals or that we supplement our unfiltered access," Flanders said.
The library attempted to use CyberPatrol, a common filtering software package, to block access to obscene or illegal information. However, Flanders said the library uninstalled CyberPatrol because it blocked access to legitimate sites.
Flanders said some libraries provided both filtered and unfiltered access and let patrons decide what they and their children would use. He said that allowing both, as permitted in the Senate bill, might work at the Lawrence Public Library.
Graduate students asset to museums
By Susie Gura
sgura@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Susie Gura
James Ashe, senior curator of the museum, said graduate students not only contributed specimens to collections but also contributed research and maintained the collections.
Kansan staff writer
With the help of graduate students, the University of Kansas continually adds specimens to its museums' collections.
The use of the Natural History Museum's collections in graduate education has been a main factor in the top 10 national rankings of the University's departments of systematics and ecology, botany, entomology and geology.
Rod Hanley, graduate research assistant in the Natural History Museum, traveled to Costa Rica last year and collected thousands of insects to add to the collections at the Museum of Entomology in Snow Hall.
"We set a number of insect traps to collect them." Hanlev said.
"They also help in the growth, research and purification of the collections." he said.
Graduate students also use the museums' collections for thesis research, he said.
Hanley said, "The loans can be from weeks to years so people can do research on insects."
of the largest university collections in the world.
The Museum of Entomology has conducted collecting trips to Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Guatemala.
Oliver Komar, graduate student in ornithology, said the museums' collections offered unique opportunities.
"Graduate students are definitely an important part of the museum. They work as assistant curators and contribute new material to the collections," he said.
The Museum of Entomology contains 3.5 million species, which is one
Ashe said, "We collected 45,000 specimens last year to be added to the collection in the Museum of Entomology."
The Natural History Museum collections include more than 5.8 million specimens of plants and animals. The museum's collections, the majority of which are not open to the public, are among the top 20 systematics research collections in the country.
The Museum began collecting its specimens during the 19th century and at that time collected any type of specimen.
Kemp said, "We now collect specimens based on research needs and collect more specific things."
The collecting is conducted by museum curators and graduate students working in the museum.
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