A council report, "Youth Pornography, and the Internet," identified "best practices" for libraries, including offering "users a variety of choices regarding filtered and unfiltered access," using software to "clear" browser histories and making information on the filtering policy conspicuously available.
In a report last month on "Youth, Pornography and the Internet," the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, said that "best practices" by libraries might include: CLEAN SLATE -- Installing software to clear browser histories and caches, to prevent reference to the Web pages consulted by previous users.
They've written a book called "Making a Collection Count: A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management," which proposes best practices for analyzing library data and adapting to space constraints.
To extrapolate best practices for accessible library website design, the Web-browsing needs of users with visual impairments were investigated.
While we have libraries of tools, resources, case studies, best practice examples and years of experience leading ourselves, in this moment we are called upon to ask better questions, insist on clarity and candor, and press our clients and ourselves to move through the fog of lousy leaders and dishonest, even corrupt practice.
Or regulatory best practice?
This is not best practice.
What best practice is there?
All of the above contravene best practice.
