“Bierce Library is thought of as a place for studying, eating lunch, researching and/or relaxing between classes. The atmosphere is reasonably quiet, comfortable, and there are a multitude of resources available to students that make the academic experience in the library conducive to scholarly activity.”
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Bierce Library is thought of as a place for studying, eating lunch, researching and/or relaxing between classes. The atmosphere is reasonably quiet, comfortable, and there are a multitude of resources available to students that make the academic experience in the library conducive to scholarly activity.
Except, of course, when you are one of the unlucky frequenters of the library who walks past the community access computers to encounter a patron viewing porn.
An anonymous student assistant at Bierce reports seeing community patrons viewing pornographic material at least once a day. When inquired as to why the observation of such material is permitted in a public library, the assistant explained that while every so often students approach employees to complain, Bierce employees are not permitted to confront users of the community access computers in regards to the content they choose to view.
In fact, privacy screens have been installed over the monitors of these computers to ensure the confidentiality of those who use them, practically condoning the browsing of pornographic material. Even worse, the privacy screens don’t work; if you walk directly behind the monitors, you can see crystal clear.
This means that administration knows it is happening, but refuses to do anything about it.
While the freedom to browse the internet is important to students conducting research and doing homework, the freedom to look at pornography in a public library is not.
Such behavior is rude, distasteful, and completely inappropriate for what is supposed to be an academic setting. No student who has come to the library intending to relax or study wants the misfortune of seeing another individual viewing lewd sex acts.
In addition, some students have children and bring them to the library. The library is public, meaning public-friendly, and that includes children. There is a place and time for everything, and a public library and graphic, sexually explicit material do not go hand in hand.
There are no restrictions on any web domains, and that is the way it should be because students need to be able to conduct research freely, but since when do the Web sites falling under the XXX category need to be included?
The issue of people from the community coming into Bierce Library to watch and browse through porn degrades the integrity of the University of Akron. The fact that the administration is aware that people come to the University’s library specifically to look at pornography but overlooks it is not acceptable.

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