60 Unbelievable stupidity in my profession

There is an article this month in the Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol.30, no.4, that proposes:

"Pornography has become part of mainstream culture. As such, it has become a subject of academic research, and this, in turn, has implications for university libraries. Focusing on adult Internet pornography, this study suggests that academic libraries should provide access to adult pornographic Web sites by including them in their online catalogs."

As if funding wasn't tough enough at tax supported institutions! And how about those law suits for harassment the libraries will get from "forcing" staff to do this work. When I chose to do research on private libraries, I was on my own. It was not considered "academic" enough for funding. I managed. Got published and promoted. Porn afficionados can do the same. It's not like they need a quality filter of a live librarian.

Genealogy is also mainstream and is next to pornography in internet popularity, and I'm willing to bet academic libraries aren't rushing out to build their genealogy collections.

The authors are Canadian.