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Apr. 19th, 2005 @ 01:49 pm Professional Ethics -- Info 520 Week 4 -- Drexel U.
We're to read four case studies, comment on them in the discussion board, and write up a journal by Monday. While waiting for the assignment to be posted I took the liberty of locating some web resources, see below --
Robert robert.a.harris@gmail.com


Code of Ethics, American Library Association

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/codeofethics/codeethics.htm

"As members of the American Library Association, we recognize the importance of codifying and making known to the profession and to the general public the ethical principles that guide the work of librarians, other professionals providing information services, library trustees and library staffs."
Includes an eight-point code featuring service, privacy, intellectual freedom, and continuing education.


Code of Ethics for Information Professionals American Society for Information Science

http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/WorldCodes/ASIS.Code.html
"ASIS recognizes the plurality of uses and users of information technologies, services, systems and products and the diversity of goals or objectives, sometimes conflicting, among vendors, producers, mediators, and users of information systems. ASIS mandates high standards for its members, identifying the following areas of responsibility," including responsibility to employers/clients/system users, responsibility to the profession, and responsibility to society.


Professional Ethics, Association for Information Systems

http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/research/resources/isworld/ethics/
"Professional Ethics concerns one's conduct of behaviour and practice when carrying out professional work. Such work may include consulting, researching, teaching and writing. The institutionalisation of Codes of Conduct and Codes of Practice is common with many professional bodies for their members to observe."
Includes introduction, definition, issues, advantages and disadvantages, rosters of mailing lists and other codes, ethics education, resource materials and links, centers, and conferences.


Professional Codes of Ethics/Conduct, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
http://www.ifla.org/faife/ethics/codes.htm
"A collection of professional guidelines for librarians and other library employees adopted by national library or librarians associations or implemented by government agencies."
Includes guidelines from national institutions associated with close to 30 countries ranging from Armenia to Sri Lanka and Mexico.


Code of Ethics: Ethics in Library and Information Science St. John's University

http://www.stjohns.edu/pls/portal30/sjudev.school.home?p_siteid=38&p_navbar=207&p_id=69233
"The Division of Library and Information Science prepares graduate students for their responsibilities as practicing librarians and information professionals. In their roles as information specialists they significantly influence or control the selection, organization, preservation and dissemination of information in an increasingly global environment; therefore, their professional conduct must be guided by the highest ethical standards."
Includes links to other ethics sites, book and article citations, and web links.


Code of Ethics: University Library, University of Caterbury (NZ)

http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/about/code_ethics.shtml
"The ethics of concern to the staff of the University Library are those of the library and information profession as a whole. They include honesty, integrity and competence as expressed through the following:" service, privacy, intellectual freedom, intellectual property rights, good employer/employee principles, continuing proifessional education, professional duties v. personal conviction, private needs v. institution's needs, information technology code of conduct, bibliography.


Information Ethics: School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~ethics/
"Ethics: A definition -- The art and science that seeks to bring sensitivity and method to the discernment of moral values."
Includes also a bibliography, forum, ethics fund and fellowship, as well as a history and description of information ethics at SIS.


Ethics Links to Librarian and Information Manager Associations WWW Pages, Valdosta State University

http://books.valdosta.edu/mlis/ethics/EthicsBibOrg.htm
"Codes of ethics and standards of practice are distinguished from organizational missions, aims, and objectives. The former are for individual members and practitioners. The latter apply to the organization."
Includes links to ethics pages, mission statements, organizations, W3 resources, international and regional associations, and national subdivisions.
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