Tag: ALA Code of Ethics
What the Vendor Saw: Digital Surveillance in Libraries
As big publishers increasingly become data brokers, libraries must take extra care to protect our patrons and researchers from surveillance that threatens academic freedom.
How and Why Libraries Should Strive to Create Safe, Culturally Responsive Spaces
Although diversity and representation have long been core tenets of the library profession, recent research in racial trauma and lasting physical, psychological, and social effects reinforces the unique role of the librarian in serving youth communities.
Assisting Customers with Digital Alteration: An Ethical Conundrum
By: guest contributor Andrew Harant, ALA Committee on Professional Ethics Chair. When public library customers ask for assistance to digitally alter official documents, the issue is not about intellectual property rights—the issue is that doing so may actually be unlawful.