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Subject: An Essay on Professional Ethics
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   Re: Ethical reference desk practices.

   by don Warner saklad (don [at.gif] saklad.org) on Wednesday, December
   19 @02:24AM
   http://zork.net/~dsaklad

   BPL initially denied requests for lack of response.

   Do ethical reference desk practices include deceiving our cities'
   public libraraies users, other public library personnel and public
   library union collective bargaining labor relations advocates?...
   deceiving with denial, delay or additional fees for information
   already at the reference desk to deter use of legitimately public
   information!

   Guidelines for Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information
   Services Professionals
   http://www.ala.org/rusa/stnd_behavior.html


   Check with Joe Walsh or his other colleagues at Massachusetts Public
   Records Division, tel. 617.727.2832 about that misguided
   interpretation of law. There's no requirement, in fact it's the other
   way around. People can't be required to make an FOI request to read
   public information
   http://www.state.ma.us/sec/pre/prelaw/lawfaq.htm

   Check with your own state public records division web links
   http://www.nfoic.org/web/
   http://www.rcfp.org/tapping/index.cgi
   http://web.syr.edu/~bcfought/
   http://www.citizen.org/litigation/free_info/


   The best of wishes of the season!
    oo__  dWs
          Guide to problematical Boston Public Library use
   http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.WebLogs.com/stories
   http://zork.net/~dsaklad

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   An Essay on Professional Ethics

   Story Posted by Blake on Monday December 17, @ 05:06PM -- Read 42
   Times.
   from the People-For-The-Ethical-Treatment-Of-Librarians dept.

   This Essay, by Ralph L. Sanderson, briefy examines the topic of
   professional ethics. He examines both the broad concepts and issues
   involved before focusing on ethics and the library and information
   management profession. He says As 'professionals', librarians have
   adopted, through their governing associations, their own ethics or
   'rules of correct and honorable conduct'. The respective library
   associations of the United States, Great Britain, Australia and New
   Zealand have all adopted similar (if not identical) ethics.

   Librarians
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   Ethical reference desk practices.

   by don Warner saklad (don [at.gif] saklad.org) on Monday, December 17
   @08:11PM
   http://zork.net/~dsaklad
   Librarians haven't looked at censoring at our cities' public libraries
   reference desks.
   It's unethical to deny or delay legitimately public information
   because it happens to be internal background information about our
   public library itself
   http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.WebLogs.com/stories

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   Re: Ethical reference desk practices.

   by Brian on Tuesday, December 18 @10:37AM
   http://www.librarism.com/
   As Mr. Saklad knows, Massachusetts law *requires* a public library in
   the state to treat a request for an internal library document
   differently than a request for, say, a recipe for boerenjongens. The
   "delay" he whines about comes from BPL consistently following the
   procedures of its public records policy, as the law requires. In many
   cases, it looks like he's been "denied" documents because he didn't
   want to pay the search and photocopy fees legitimately authorized by
   the state.

   On the other hand, maybe Mr. Saklad is a product of the folks at MIT's
   AI lab and doesn't know all this stuff. His postings seem to indicate
   the application of a hard-coded set of rules for library ethics.

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