Box 14.4 Illustrative "Best Practices" Scenarios for Libraries In a "best practices" scenario focused on the library, libraries offer Internet safety instruction to both parents and children. Software would be installed to "clear" browser histories and caches so that a new user would not be able to view anything seen by the previous user. Libraries would also offer users a variety of choices regarding filtered or unfiltered access. Internet access points inside children's areas would ask the age of the child--young children (e.g., those below 10, although this age is arbitrary) would receive a notice that they were being given filtered access, while older children would be offered an unbiased choice of filtered and unfiltered Internet access. (In this context, "unbiased" means that neither filtered nor unfiltered access is the default. Instead, prior to Internet use, a user would specify--in private--an explicit choice of filtered or unfiltered access. In this way, a user who wishes to gain private and unrestricted access to information could do so without having to be embarrassed or feel uncomfortable about having to ask for unfiltered access, and a user who wished to not be exposed to certain kinds of material could do so without having to acknowledge to someone that he or she might be uncomfortable with such material.) In any event, information on the filtering policy would be conspicuous and available so that users would have a general idea of what was blocked.