Ex-Library Assistant Speaks out Against the Berkeley Public Library on www.libraryquirks.org

This blog has been created to inform the citizens of Berkeley of problematic behavior that occurs at the Berkeley Public Library.

My pri­mary objec­tive is to show that the Berke­ley Pub­lic Library, in order to keep free­dom of expres­sion as their main con­cern, has com­pro­mised social mores, fam­ily val­ues and com­mon sense.

Their choice not to cen­sor or mon­i­tor their unfil­tered com­put­ers has left them cop­ing with furtive acts of self-pleasuring by some patrons, which con­flicts with stan­dard social mores. 

By not fil­ter­ing the com­put­ers specif­i­cally set aside for chil­dren and young adults (ages 13–17), they are not con­sid­er­ing parental con­cerns.  

The library’s use of pri­vacy screens over the com­puter mon­i­tors does not work because you still see what is on the mon­i­tor from var­i­ous angles in the pub­lic space.