At the Ontario Library Association Policy Conference in November we will be discussing internet filtering. I have be asked to prepare some background information on the topic. If you know of any interesting sites on the internet which should be included please contact me, either by email, phone 519-471-1538 or fax at 519-5396 One change in the program this session will be conducted by Margaret Mitchell, Director Public Services, London Public Library. List below is the Policy Form description of this session. Thanks in advance. Meeting #1: Ontario Public Library Association Ontario Library and Information Technology Association OLA Intellectual Freedom Task Force DEVELOPING A POSITION ON INTERNET FILTERING Chair: Alastair Neely, OPLA Vice President Internet filtering has been a very major issue in the press, among individual public groups and in libraries themselves. Challenges to internet policy in general continue to happen, most recently in London where the Police Commission has promoted filtering at London Public Library. At one point, there was rumour that the Police Commission was intending to go to the provincial level of its organization and attempt to get a policy supporting internet filtering in public institutions. Although we have no reason to believe that this is happening, it does raise a number of questions for the library world and for the Association.