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Two speakers at Online 95 spoke on the contentious subjects of censorship and other ethical matters on the Internet. Charles Oppenheim, then of the University of Strathclyde, talked about three problem areas on the Internet that are difficult to police — pornography; copyright and moral rights infringement; and libel and slander. He also cited some examples of each. Michael Dahan of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and of the Israel Democracy Institute, then talked about the censorship imposed on the Internet by the secret service in Israel — a country that is understandably more security conscious than many in the West.

History, culture and geography have linked the regions of Hampshire and Lower Normandy for many centuries. Only the English Channel separates the two regions, but with the advent of the Single European Market, links are currently being strengthened through the Hampshire/Basse‐Normandie Accord.

From April 1989 Leicester Polytechnic will, in common with the other UK Polytechnics, face a major change in its status. It will be encumbent on the Polytechnic to take an entrepreneurial role and explore new ways of generating income. As one of a series of income‐generating initiatives, a project was started at Leicester Polytechnic in July 1987 to establish a database which will list all ongoing and potential research and consultancy activities within the institution.

Notes that popular children′s material is being reassessed and criticised for portraying false images and stereotypes which reaffirm prejudices and inequality. Discusses compromises to full censorship including age‐related censorship and reserve stocks. Concludes there should be access to all types of children′s literature in the library but in varying degrees of freedom determined not by censorship but by controlled access.

Another step towards stimulating a taste for health in their region was taken recently at a presentation to launch Croydon District Health Authority's Food and Health Policy.

This chapter analyzes the campaign against race norming in the 2013 National Football League (NFL) concussion settlement that caregivers of retired players designed, and it considers how their collective action throws new light on activism in sport. While there is a substantial literature on how individual athletes engage in protest, less work has focused on how families – partners, children, siblings, and parents – of athletes organize as a group to answer back to anti-Black racism in professional sport. I argue that a group of spouses used their position as caregivers to shame the NFL, the presiding judge of the settlement, Class Counsel, and even the Department of Justice into acknowledging not only individual suffering from traumatic brain injury but also of the distribution of that suffering across households. Specifically, the wives group expanded definitions of risk and damage to include not only individual illness but also family and group suffering and demanded inclusion of gendered and racialized aspects of social care. Through their campaign, the group recast what is considered protest in the world of sport and who has the ability to access an activist subjectivity.

The literature of the information needs and uses of humanities scholars in universities is reviewed, using, in the main, material published from 1970 onwards. The areas covered include definitions of humanities, the way humanities scholars work and the materials of their research; secondary services; computers and new technology; the role of libraries and library services and comparisons between humanities and other disciplines. The review ends with a brief assessment of the state of the art; an outline of some unanswered questions and some consideration of the future of humanities. The main conclusions drawn are that the literature is piecemeal, at times confusing, and that progress in providing guidelines to librarians on the basis of systematic enquiry is slow.