The increasing use of the Internet in public libraries has been accompanied by the adoption of systems to control and monitor access to ensure that only appropriate content reaches the library computers.

Libraries offer free access to the Internet for the general public, which essentially means the people who use the service are anonymous, and therefore have the potential to use the resource inappropriately and without alerting library administrators.

CensorNet offers a straightforward solution for any library wishing to adopt a filtering system to stop inappropriate content from being accessed by guests in the library. This also helps to reduce viruses and other suspect material being stored on the library computer system.

CensorNet also has a Koha plug-in. Koha is an open source integrated library system which is a full catalogue, circulation, member management and acquisitions package. The CensorNet plug-in allows you to install CensorNet with Koha and offer Internet filtering for registered members from your existing Koha database.

We encourage all libraries looking to adopt an Internet Policy to take the Product Tour to see how CensorNet can help safeguard visitors to the library and ensure the Internet is a more productive and useful resource.