Guide to ethics in acquisitions
Subtitle: Wyoma VanDuinkerken, Wendi Arant Kaspar, and Jeanne Harrell, Acquisitions Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, American Library Association
Contributors: Kaspar, Wendi Arant, author; Harrell, Jeanne, author; Association for Library Collections & Technical Services; American Library Association
Series: ALCTS acquisitions guides series -- no. 17
Publisher: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, American Library Association; Assoc for Libr Collections & Tech Svc
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780838987018; 9780838987025; 9780838987032
Subjects: Acquisitions (Libraries); Acquisitions librarians; Professional ethics; Collection development (Libraries); Collection management (Libraries); Intellectual freedom; Right of Privacy; Libraries and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-84).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Organization of the Guide; title: Ethics. Definition of Ethics; Personal and Societal Values; Legal Ethics (State and Federal); Professional Ethics; title: The Acquisitions Librarian and Ethics. Brief History of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services; Reason for Acquisitions Focus; Guidance from Twelve Statements; Decision Points in Ethical Collection Development. Intellectual Freedom; Collecting Materials According to Collection Development Policies; Selection Stage; Scope of Content; Receipt of Materials; Checks and Balances; Security of Materials; Cost of Preservation; Storage of Material; Ethics of Collection Access; title: Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Library Acquisitions. The Legal Landscape of Privacy and Confidentiality; When Library Best Practices Violate Patron Privacy; Recommendations; title: Appendix: Major Ethics Codes for Librarianship; title: Glossary: Ethics Terms