Sunday, October 26, 2008

In relation to my previous post about elderly patrons and technology, this post has to do with the younger generation. Kids generally know more about computers, because they have grown up with the technology and have developed an innate ability for it.  When I was work this afternoon, the children's librarian had a heated discussion with a child's mother.  The mother asked the librarian to monitor her child's web time while she browsed in the adult section.  The librarian peeked over once and saw some inappropriate pictures on the child's screen.  The mother was called and she began to yell at the librarian.  There were firewalls loaded onto the children's computer to block "bad' webpages.  Somehow the kid overrode them and the mother blamed the librarian for the kid's actions.  It took about an our to reprogram the computer.  Kids know too much for their own good sometimes.

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