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801: Foundations of Library & Information Management

 

An introduction to information agencies and professions, this course examines the philosophical and ethical underpinnings, roles and societal contexts, and current issues of the global information society. Students explore the role of information in society, change as reflected in paradigm shifts, the theory and processes of information transfer, and the characteristics of information professionals and professional practices. 

 

 

 

 Applying Model for Ethical Decision-making – Ethics Case Study Newsletter

 

This group assignment required us to analyze a library ethics case study from our textbook and research the various ethical concerns surrounding the issue presented in the case. We then wrote articles that portrayed a hypothetical community’s response to the ethical debate and presented them in a newsletter. Our case focused primarily on patron privacy; In this situation a healthcare firm which maintains a special medical library for employee research requested patron records after it was rumored that one of their employees was selling proprietary information to a competitor.  The ethical debate centered on whether the Library Director upheld the ALA Ethics Code when private patron information was provided to management.

 

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LI801XA Assignment #6 Newspaper Case 3.5.pdf

 

 

ESU Library & Information Management. (2015, July 22). Course descriptions. Retrieved from  https://www.emporia.edu/slim/studentresources/schedules/course-descriptions.html

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