Ethical Decision Making for Digital Libraries

✍ Scribed by Cokie Anderson (Auth.)

Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 146
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in digital libraries, and the codes of conduct, professional guidelines and ethics resources used in resolving them. The book begins with an overview of classical and applied ethics, then reviews the codes of conduct of professional information societies (libraries, archivists, information technology). The book then examines issues and situations that arise in digitization and digital library management, and explores the ways established information ethics can be applied and adapted to these cases.

Looks at ethics relating to digitization, digital libraries and preservation
Includes decision making guides for various situations that arise in digital libraries, with questions for readers to ask themselves when faced with an ethical dilemma
Takes the professional guidelines and codes of conduct for librarians, archivists and information workers as stated in the codes of ethics for various professional societies and applies these to the world of digital libraries

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Acknowledgements, Page ix
About the author, Page xi
Preface, Pages xiii-xiv
1 - An introduction to ethical theory and applied ethics, Pages 1-5
2 - Professional codes of ethics in the information professions, Pages 7-18
3 - Ethics and digitisation policies, Pages 19-28
4 - Ethics in selection of materials to digitise, Pages 29-42
5 - Ethics and funding, Pages 43-52
6 - Ethics and digital collaborations, Pages 53-62
7 - Ethics and digitisation standards, Pages 63-70
8 - Ethics in the digitisation process, Pages 71-80
9 - Ethics and digital preservation, Pages 81-90
10 - Ethics and access, Pages 91-104
11 - Ethics and digital library management, Pages 105-118
12 - Ethics for twenty-first century librarians, Pages 119-126
Bibliography, Pages 127-134
Index, Pages 135-138

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