Chapter 33 Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, readers should have a better understanding of:

• information ethics for information professionals;

• the terminology for discussing ethics;

• ethical theories;

• the principles that inform the profession’s ethical codes; and

• the evidence of those principles and discuss future trends and implications for ethical thinking.

Chapter 33 Instructor PowerPoint

Downloadable PowerPoint presentation and PowerPoint notes for course instruction. These files are only accessible to instructors who have adopted Information Services Today: An Introduction (3rd ed) for their course. To request access, please click on the images below or email Sandy Hirsh.

Chapter 33 Discussion Questions

The following questions are included in the textbook.

1. The principal, in response to a parent’s complaint about a book in the school library, removes the book and puts it in her office without following the official policy for handling challenges. Do you say anything? If so, what and to whom?

2. How do information professionals balance the desire to save money through the E-rate discounts that come with adopting a filter with the ethical imperative to ensure equitable and unfettered access to information.

Handouts

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Related Chapters

The following chapters are referenced in Chapter 33 and may assist in expanding your classroom instruction and discussions.

• Chapter 6: Equity of Access, Diversity, and Inclusion

• Chapter 7: Social Justice

• Chapter 8: Literacy and Media Centers: School Libraries

• Chapter 10: Community Anchors for Lifelong Learning: Public Libraries

• Chapter 15: Curation and Preservation

• Chapter 16: User Experience

• Chapter 17: Accessing Information Anywhere and Anytime: Access Services

• Chapter 18: Teaching Users: Information and Technology Literacy and Instruction

• Chapter 20: Creation Culture and Makerspaces

• Chapter 22: Change Management

• Chapter 37: Information Privacy and Cybersecurity

• Chapter 38: Intellectual Freedom