Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct

These codes are examples of attempts by professional organizations and institutions to define professional ethics and to prohibit harmful conduct, such as harrassment, intimidation, discrimination. We include also some additional resources, including responses to and critiques of these codes.

Codes of Conduct

• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Meetings and Events Code of Conduct

• American Library Association (ALA) Statement of Appropriate Conduct

  • ALA Online Code of Conduct

• #Critlib Unconference Code of Conduct

• LD4P Community Participation Guidelines

• Metropolitan Library Council (METRO) Code of Conduct

• Ontario Library Association Events Code of Conduct

  • OLA Mailing List Code of Conduct

• Program for Cooperative Cataloging Code of Conduct

• Society of American Archivists Code of Conduct

• Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct

Codes of Ethics

• American Library Association Code of Ethics

• Association of College and Research Libraries Code of Ethics for Special Collections Librarians

• Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee Code of Ethics (Final version, January 2020)

• Society of American Archivists Core Values Statement and Code of Ethics

• Zine Librarians Code of Ethics

Non-Discrimination Policies

• Society of American Archivists Equal Opportunity/Non-Discrimination Policy

Responses and Other Resources

• Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA)

  • • Anti-Oppressive Meeting Facilitation Guide

• Fister, Barbara. "In Praise of Whistleblowers and #teamharpy." Inside Higher Ed, September 23, 2014.

• Hathcock, April. "ALAMW: What Happened, and What Should Happen Next." Blog post, January 30, 2019.

• MacBride, Katie. "#TimesUp on Harassing Your Public Librarian." Shondaland, January 31, 2018.

• Yelton, Andromeda. "#libtechgender: Conference Codes of Conduct As Seen From Your World and Mine." Blog Post, January 3, 2014.