Library school curriculum

Not focus on information, but focus on

People
1. Personal morality and professional ethics2. The helping relationship
3. Structures and institutions of society & the role of professionals
4. Understanding "the information society" in context of other social revolutions
5. Information ethics and information policy

Skills
1. Cataloging
2. Collection management
3. Reference
4. Library leadership & management
5. Instruction & information literacy

Libraries and porn

Whether or not a librarian thinks porn is harmless or thinks that individuals have a right to access any information they want, they must remember first that they are given authority by a community, and here "prevailing public morality" is quite relevant. That is, you're discredited by most members of the community if you allow unbridled access to pornography on your public computers, just as you would be if you stocked pornography as part of the collection.

Perhaps someday American society will not be so afraid of sexuality, but that is not the case now. Remember your civic and fiduciary responsibilities, aside from your primary responsibility which actually rules out access to porn anyway. That is, reading for education. Entertainment, especially sheerly titillating entertainment, is a tertiary responsibility, and, as entertainment falls into aesthetics, one should follow the guides of public morality rather than minority or individual tastes, and censor accordingly.