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ethical question



I have been approached by a genealogy magazine about writing an
article that would explain how to use some of the types of items in
one or more of the CIA's special collections to research social
history of food (i.e., to get an idea of what your ancestors ate). I
would pass this by my supervisors in any case, but I am trying to
decide if I should present this to them as a project I would do this
on my own time (and thus, keep whatever payment the magazine offers
me) or a project I would do during work time (in which case, if I
received remuneration, it should probably somehow go to the CIA rather
than to me)--or ask them which of these they prefer.

There is the potential that if I did such an article, even if I
reference similar collections in other libraries, I would probably
attract a certain number of queries for information from our
collections, so even if I do this on my own time, it would have the
result of advertising the availability of our materials, which would
be a good thing.

Does anyone have comments about this, especially the "on my own time
or on the CIA's time" question?



Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Special Collections Librarian/Archivist

Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY  12538
(845) 451-1757
c_crawfo@culinary.edu

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