The program of voluntary certification is intended to provide library trustees, library personnel and municipal officials with a means to improve library service to their communities, and to aid and encourage individuals who do not hold a Master s Degree in Library Science to increase their professional qualifications and to afford themselves opportunity for greater remuneration. Applicants shall be current members of the Maine Library Association. Job descriptions Salary schedules Organization chart Pay periods c. Employee Assistance Programs Worker s Compensation Credit Union d. As members of the American Library Association, we recognize the importance of codifying and making known to the profession and to the general public the ethical principles that guide the work of librarians, other professionals providing information services, library trustees and library staffs.
Ethical dilemmas occur when values are in conflict.
The American Library Association Code of Ethics states the values to which we are committed, and embodies the ethical responsibilities of the profession in this changing information environment. We significantly influence or control the selection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information. In a political system grounded in an informed citizenry, we are members of a profession explicitly committed to intellectual freedom and the freedom of access to information. We have a special obligation to ensure the free flow of information and ideas to present and future generations. The principles of this Code are expressed in broad statements to guide ethical decision making.