Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!jfraser From: jfraser@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jane Fraser) Subject: Re: publicly-readable "adult" gifs (was Re: Ohio State University CIS Policies) Message-ID: <1991Jun10.203000.22473@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University References: <1991Jun8.200358.13482@eff.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 20:30:00 GMT Lines: 47 In article <1991Jun8.200358.13482@eff.org> kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie) writes: >Refering to OSU's subscription to Playboy ... > >jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: >[...] >>I know; I checked too, before I posted. I didn't have a chance to ask >>how they regulate access, although I note that it's currently recieved >>in the rare books room, which requires you to give your ID when >>requesting materials. >[...] > >It's my impression that materials such as Playboy are kept in places >such as the Rare Book room to protect the magazine from the reader, >not the reader from the magazine. (Playboy is prone to be stolen; a >vulnerable not shared by GIF files). > >Perhaps a real-life librarian can set Mr. Greely and me straight (just >send e-mail to caf-talk@eff.org). >-- >Carl Kadie -- kadie@eff.org or kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- But I speak for myself. > I happened to have lunch today with Bill Studer, Director of the Libraries here at Ohio State. Playboy is available only by temporarily trading your student/faculty/staff ID for it, but anyone may read it. The only age limit imposed would be that the person would have to be able to reach the counter to present his/her ID. :-) The librarians assembled (most of the OSU Library administration) were strong in their remarks that librarians everywhere believe in unregulated access to library materials. By the way, the OSU Library is believed to be the only place with a complete collection of Hustlers. Someone in sociology needed them for research and used research funding to assemble the back collection. The researcher gave it to the library on condition that they maintain a subscription to keep the collection up-to-date. Jane M. Fraser Co-Director CAST, Center for Advanced Study in Telecommunications The Ohio State University 210 Baker Systems, 1971 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 614-292-4129