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Your Money Or Your Speech: The Children's Internet Protection Act And The Congressional Assault On The First Amendment In Public Libraries, Steven D. Hinckley Mar 2012

Your Money Or Your Speech: The Children's Internet Protection Act And The Congressional Assault On The First Amendment In Public Libraries, Steven D. Hinckley

Steven D. Hinckley

This article examines the inherent conflict between This article examines the inherent conflict between two Congressional approaches to public access to the Internet - the provision of federal funding support to schools and public libraries to ensure broad access to online information regardless of financial means, and federal restrictions on children's use of school and public library computers to access content that the government feels could be harmful to them. It analyzes the efficacy and constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), Congress's attempt to use its powers of the purse to control objectionable online content in the very …


Book Review - A Guide To Legal Research In Virginia (Edited By John D. Eure), Steven D. Hinckley Mar 2012

Book Review - A Guide To Legal Research In Virginia (Edited By John D. Eure), Steven D. Hinckley

Steven D. Hinckley

Review of A Guide to Legal Research in Virginia, edited by John D. Eure. Charlottesville, VA: Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Virginia Law Foundation, 1989.


Not For The Faint Of Heart: Fiscal Management Of Publicly Funded Law Libraries In A Time Of Economic Crisis, Steven D. Hinckley Mar 2012

Not For The Faint Of Heart: Fiscal Management Of Publicly Funded Law Libraries In A Time Of Economic Crisis, Steven D. Hinckley

Steven D. Hinckley

The author examines the challenges faced by administrators of publicly funded law libraries in trying to gain sufficient financial support for their institutions at a time of fiscal crisis and during a era of increasing reluctance of state governments to fund libraries and other educational programs.


Bounds And Beyond: A Need To Reevaluate The Right Of Prison Access To The Courts, Steven D. Hinckley Mar 2012

Bounds And Beyond: A Need To Reevaluate The Right Of Prison Access To The Courts, Steven D. Hinckley

Steven D. Hinckley

The author argues that the 1977 United States Supreme Court decision in Bounds v. Smith insufficiently protects the right of prisoners to represent themselves before the courts by failing to require state and federal correctional facilities to establish and maintain adequately stocked prison law libraries and to provide prisoners with the option to use those libraries as their means of gaining meaningful access to the courts.


Redefining Academic Law Library Excellence In A Technological Age: From Evolution To Revolution, Steven D. Hinckley Mar 2012

Redefining Academic Law Library Excellence In A Technological Age: From Evolution To Revolution, Steven D. Hinckley

Steven D. Hinckley

This article focuses on the rapidly changing standards of academic law library excellence as the ready availability and diversity of information technologies and digital collections supplant traditional print collections as the determinative measurement of library quality. The author challenges the legal and law library professions to discard traditional qualitative standards (e.g., print volume and title holdings) and to embrace standards that recognize the importance of meaningful access to information that is not tied to physical ownership or location.