Ethical Decision Making for Digital Libraries

Anderson, Cokie G.

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“…Several other policy formulations and codes of conduct exist today too, sometimes of quite specialized character, such as the the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Professional Guidelines and the Code of Ethics for Archivists, issued by the American Society for Archivists . These and several others are analyzed by Anderson (2006), but here attention is given the ethical code for librarians in a strict sense and form.…”

Section: Empirical Example: the Code Of Ethics Of The American Librarmentioning

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The Documentality of Ethics – Codes of Library Ethics as Support of Professional Practice

Hansson¹

2016

Proc Doc Acad

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Section: Empirical Example: the Code Of Ethics Of The American Librarmentioning

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The Documentality of Ethics – Codes of Library Ethics as Support of Professional Practice

Hansson¹

2016

Proc Doc Acad

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“…This is sometimes restricted to living persons. The issue is especially sensitive if the individuals concerned were not aware of, and had no say in, the release of the information (A; Anderson , p. 29). Jordan (, p. 33) refers to the need for “[p]reserving respect for individual and family privacy” and urges caution when including items in digital collections “which may violate individuals’ privacy or the privacy of named or depicted people's living descendants.” The principles referred to earlier, in the discussion of incidental creators who post content on blogs and social networking sites in a spontaneous manner, are largely applicable here as well.…”

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“…Authenticity requires that only the best version of any given work be digitized. Anderson () cites the example of an eminent U.S. university which, to avoid copyright issues, digitized an inferior edition of a book because it was out of copyright. The problem is that users of the digitized collection will assume that this is a good edition because of the high reputation of the university that scanned it.…”

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“…This right also implies that measures be taken to provide access to users with special needs, e.g., the visually impaired (cf. Anderson , p. 22). The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provides important guidelines for Web accessibility (http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html).…”

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“…A similar question arises regarding born‐digital content, for example, e‐journals and e‐government publications. Increasingly, these are distributed only electronically (Anderson, ). It is possible for publishers to cut off access to the data or withdraw items for commercial or political reasons.…”

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An ethical perspective on political‐economic issues in the long‐term preservation of digital heritage

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Britz

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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Provi des an overview of the main ethical and associ ated poli tical -economic aspects of the preservation of born-digital content and the digitization of analogue content for purposes of preservation. The term 'heritage' is used broadly to include scientific and scholarly publications and data. While the preservation of heritage is generally seen as inherently 'good', this activity implies the exercise of difficult moral choices. The ethical complexity of the preservation of di gi tal heri tage is illustrated by means of two hypotheti cal cases. The first deal s wi th the harvesting and preservation in a wealthy country of political websites originating in a less affluent country. The second deals with a project initiated by a wealthy country to digitize the cultural heritage of a less affluent country. The ethical reflection that follows is structured within the framework of social justice and a set of information rights that are identified as corollaries of 2 generally recognized human rights. The main moral agents, that is, the parties that have an interest, and may be entitled to exercise rights, in relation to digital preservation, are identified.The responsibilities that those who preserve digital content have towards these parties, and the political-economic considerations that arise, are then analyzed.

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Professional value and ethical self-regulation in the development of modern librarianship

Hansson

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to make a contribution to the theoretical understanding of documents and documentary agency in society through examples from a defined institutional and professional setting; and second, to create an understanding for the role of ethical codes in the process of defining and developing modern librarianship. Design/methodology/approach This study analyses the role of documentation carrying content of professional ethics in the formulation of modern librarianship. This is done through a series of example documents of various kinds, such as founding charters, peer handbooks and ethical codes systematically analysed through the use of document theory and theory on institutional change. Findings The findings of this study suggest that documents pronouncing ethical self-regulation within librarianship play a primarily legitimising role in situations where new types of libraries emerge or when libraries adapt to social change. The study proposes legitimacy as a key aspect of documentality, thus supplementing the established understanding of the concept. Originality/value This study is the first to analyse the role of ethical codes in libraries using document theory. It brings new knowledge to the role of ethical self-regulation in librarianship over time and in different institutional contexts. In suggesting a developed definition of documentality, it contributes to the theoretical understanding of the role of documents and documentation in institutions and in society at large.

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Ethical Decision Making for Digital Libraries

Cited by 8 publications

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The Documentality of Ethics – Codes of Library Ethics as Support of Professional Practice

The Documentality of Ethics – Codes of Library Ethics as Support of Professional Practice

An ethical perspective on political‐economic issues in the long‐term preservation of digital heritage

Professional value and ethical self-regulation in the development of modern librarianship

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