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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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