Information Ethics: The Duty, Privilege and Challenge of Educating Information Professionals.(University of Pennsylvania)

From: Library Trends | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

QUESTIONS CONCERNING ETHICS AND HOW AN individual can act ethically when confronted with issues related to libraries, archives, and, more broadly, information have ever been present in our professional lives whenever individuals considered their own principles and actions as related to creating, organizing, managing, using, disseminating, preserving, and providing access to information and documents in all forms. To address the duty, privilege, and challenge of educating librarians, archivists, and other information professionals to understand what ethics is and how ...

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