May Oostrom-Kwok
- Profiles
- 01 February 2018
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Ethical Dilemmas in the Information Society: How Codes of Ethics Help to Find Ethical Solutions
Papers from the IFLA/FAIFE Satellite Meeting 2014 Librarians and other information professionals are often confronted with ethical conflicts and dilemmas at their workplace. Although this is not a new phenomenon, information technology based on computers, digital media and the Internet has escalated the potential to violate the… Read More
- Publications
- 06 February 2015
- By: Amélie Vallotton Preisig, Hermann Rösch and Christoph Stückelberger (Eds.)
IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers (full version)
Preamble This Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is offered as a series of ethical propositions for the guidance of individual librarians as well as other information workers, and for the consideration of Library and Information Associations when creating or revising their own codes. The function of codes of ethics… Read More
- Publications
- 27 December 2012
IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers (short version)
Preamble This Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is offered as a series of ethical propositions for the guidance of individual librarians as well as other information workers, and for the consideration of Library and Information Associations when creating or revising their own codes. The function of codes of ethics… Read More
- Publications
- 12 October 2012
The Ethics of Librarianship: An International Survey
This book brings together papers on professional ethics for library and information services from 17 countries—from Argentina to Uganda—approaching professional concerns and responses to their ethical dimensions from a number of different angles. Library associations have considered ethical issues such as freedom of speech, for some time. The… Read More
- Publications
- 28 March 2011
- By: Robert W. Vaagan (Ed.)