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The article offers guidelines on factors that librarians need to keep in mind when a decision about filters needs to be made. Illinois libraries may legally filter obscene content and child pornography, even if filters are imperfect. Filters should be selected not on cost or convenience, but on features and capacity to customize. Librarians should advocate for the least restrictive setting and use the override lists on Internet filters.

The author focuses on the censorship for the public libraries in Orland Park, Illinois to prevent their users viewing pornography on library computers and also discusses the addition of filtering software to the library computers.

The article reports on a political debate between the Illinois Family Institute, which is pushing for a law to require filtering software on all public library computers in the state of Illinois, and the Illinois Library Association, which opposes the law. Eight libraries are reported to have shut off their internet services entirely in protest against the proposed law, which they believe is unnecessary and unduly burdensome.

Provides an update on the media censorship involving several libraries in the U.S., as of December 2005. Request of Terry Blaes, a former trustee of Florida's Marion County Public Library System, for a review of Vladimir Nabokov's award-winning novel "Lolita"; Decision of California's Solano County Library's board of supervisors to equip every computer in the system with filters; Decision of the Oak Loan Village Board of Illinois to request the city library trustees that they revisit their June 2004 decision to retain Playboy magazine over the objections of an area resident.