Open AccessFor Your Enrichment: Ethical Issues in Reference: An In-Depth View from the Librarians’ Perspective
Author(s) -
Lili Luo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n3.188
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , perspective (graphical) , engineering ethics , sociology , ethical issues , library science , ethical code , information ethics , work (physics) , political science , computer science , medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , radiology
It is always good to reflect occasionally on professional ethics and the implications of those ethics in library practice. In this paper, based on a presentation given by the author at the 2014 IFLA satellite meeting “Ethical Dilemmas in the Information Society: How Codes of Ethics Help to Find Ethical Solutions,” August 14–15, 2014, Lili Luo examines some ethical issues addressed in contemporary reference work and reports on the results of a survey of reference librarians.—Editor