Contents file: BigPicture: AUP's Contact: mdk12-editor@umail.umd.edu Posted: 07-31-96 ACCEPTIBLE-USE POLICY COMPENDIA This section includes sources where you can find compilations of Acceptible Use Policies. This file contains the notes that have accompanied the references I've found to such sites, and the date of the references. EREWHON'S WWW K-12 AUP COMPENDIUM (4/96) --------------------------------- A new web site has been established addressing K-12 Acceptable Use Policies. This site includes an extensive legal analysis of K-12 AUPs, including issues relating to due process, search and seizure, liability, copyright, and First Amendment rights. The site also includes templates for a board policy, a student AUP, account agreements for students, employees, and guests, and a letter for parents. These materials are available at: World Wide Web: http://www.erehwon.com/k12aup The materials are being distributed as "honortext". Districts and others are free to download the materials, but are requested to remit a modest fee if they choose to use the templates. The money will support additional development of materials and learning activities addressing student ethical use of the Internet. Please contact me if you have any questions. Nancy Willard Phone: (541) 344-9125 Information Technology Consultant Internet: nwillard@ordata.com 788 W 23rd Avenue, Eugene, OR 97405 KAREN SCHNEIDER'S RECOMMENDED SITES (7/96) ------------------------------ Folks, after many suggestions, leads and so forth, here are the two sites for *collections* of School Library Internet AUPs I will be referencing in my September AL column (two other sites recommended by some folks didn't pan out [as noted below] ). RICE UNIVERSITY gopher://riceinfo.rice.edu:1170/11/More/Acceptable Pros: many policies. Cons: some not dated--not sure who maintains this site or when it was last updated. THE INTERNET ADVOCATE http://silver.ucs.indiana.edu/~lchampel/netadv.htm Pros: good sample policies, tutorials, etc. Eclectic and interesting. Cons: as a personal site, will this be here in six months? ASKERIC -- not good Proved very hard to search, and then seemed to point primarily to the Rice site. CLASSROOM CONNECT Linked almost exclusively to policies for other types of libraries -- something accomplished better by the three sites referenced on the WEB4LIB Reference Center, at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/faq.html But again, we were looking for collections of *school library* policies. It would be nice if one of the sites above focused very intentionally on archiving and indexing these policies. If such a site exists already, and we all missed it, hooray--and let's have that URL! Meanwhile, bon appetit! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Karen G. Schneider * kgs@bluehighways.com * schneider.karen@epamail.epa.gov Author, The Internet Access Cookbook (e-mail Neal-Schuman@icm.com) Director, US EPA Region 2 Library * Cybrarian * Columnist, American Libraries Visit our library at http://www.epa.gov/Region2/html/library/ These opinions strictly mine! ------------------------------