Over the last couple of decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of papers and journal articles dealing with various ethical issues in librarianship, but only a few books. Information workers find themselves rendering new services and providing new kinds of information without much recourse to profession-wide ethical standards. This work is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the subject. It promotes the view that as information managers, librarians must join with other professionals to renew a commitment to and interest in ethics. The book deals with such topics as...
Over the last couple of decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of papers and journal articles dealing with various ethical issues i...
Comprised of a wide breadth of scholarly materials and diverse articulations, The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference will help you guide others in Holocaust research and show you how you can avoid contributing to the popularization and trivialization of the Holocaust. You ll find in it poems by the prolific American poet, Lyn Lifshin; an essay by Arnost Lustig; work by Roselle Chartock; commentary by Howard Israel on the controversial Pernkopf Atlas; writing on the historian s role by Michael Marrus, a top Holocaust scholar; and views on linguistic distortions by Sanford Berman, the...
Comprised of a wide breadth of scholarly materials and diverse articulations, The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference will help you guide others ...
This work examines and critiques the history, use, and abuse of various literary documentation systems. All forms of documentation used in the Western world--from ancient Biblical commentaries, to the medieval gloss, to the current systems used by researchers in the humanities and sciences--are studied.
This work examines and critiques the history, use, and abuse of various literary documentation systems. All forms of documentation used in the Western...
This handbook provides helpful guidance for the information services practitioner and manager. It contains a wealth of concrete information necessary for managing technology and its applications and for providing technological leadership. Although there are a plethora of monographs allocated to general and specific aspects of automation, computerization, and technological innovation in libraries and information centers, this volume is unique in offering a conceptual framework for implementing and managing technologies plus a detailed discussion of technologies in relation to both the needs...
This handbook provides helpful guidance for the information services practitioner and manager. It contains a wealth of concrete information necessa...
A collection of essays that are divided into five subject areas: freedom of information and the pursuit of knowledge; information, technology and education; information, rights and social justice; ethics and the Internet; and professional ethics. It features writers who give a variety of views on the value of information and its ethical dimension.
A collection of essays that are divided into five subject areas: freedom of information and the pursuit of knowledge; information, technology and educ...
Authorial Ethics is a study of the ways in which writers abrogate their implicit and explicit commitment to honesty and truth. It encompasses all disciplines and is both theoretical and applied.
Authorial Ethics is a study of the ways in which writers abrogate their implicit and explicit commitment to honesty and truth. It encompasses all disc...
