No round up of April 2007 would be complete without mentioning Deb’s (REAL PUBLIC LIBRARIAN) post, Sex in Libraries, wondering whether erotic, sexually explicit and even pornographic material have any place in libraries.

Of course, pr0n is not the only thing restricted by libraries. Techxplorer has found that some educational institutions have started blocking access to Wikipedia. Because it’s not authoritative and therefore it’s “not acceptable and so blocking it was protecting the students.”

My Finest Hour has a thought-provoking discussion about women only spaces in relation to libraries. Are there any instances when this might be necessary? What about in the context of a library which is a “source of information for women looking to get out of situations of domestic violence, or for women who are survivors of sexual abuse or assault, who might feel uncomfortable asking for help from a male librarian”?

Meanwhile over at the ADHD Librarian, John has reposting some material he wrote several years back for a library newsletter. The first in this series is called Boys, Books and Your Library. It looks at what public libraries can do to encourage boys to develop reading skills.

Michelle McLean, the Connecting Librarian, has had a very busy month. She has attended and blogged the Computers in Libraries conference, not to mention visiting a host of American libraries and catching up with American library bloggers.

Have you ever ever been confused about the rules for citing blogs? moonflowerdragon has written a post about citing blogs in APA style.

I’ll close by highlighting one new library type blog which has started (or come to our attention) in the past month. Chapter Two is a new blog by Alyson. Great start Alyson, looking forward to more - especially the nitty gritty of your new job!