Info679: Assignments: Electronic Pathfinders

Assignments: Electronic Pathfinders For the major assignment in this class, you may choose to prepare an electronic pathfinder on a topic in information ethics and related issues.

For some examples, look here:
From the Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48488

Also, the Librarians' Index to the Internet http://www.lii.org

Look here also:
http://home.wsd.wednet.edu/pathfinders/path.htm

For more ideas, look in some of the usual places--
Search the article databases such as LibraryLit, LISA, and ERIC--
http://www.library.drexel.edu

Check out some major academic library sites and invisible web sites such as the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov

Try some unusual search engines: Kartoo http://www.kartoo.com Clusty http://www.clusty.com For more see http://www.searchenginewatch.com

Possible Topics Include (See more on the Bb site):

• The Global Digital Divide
• Healthcare Ethics and Information Technology
• Ethical Practices in Internet Research
• Philosophy of Information
• Philosophy of Technology
• Using Information in Homeland Security
• Datamining in Public Health
• Privacy and Health Records
• Social Responsibility and the Information Industry
• Intellectual Property Rights vs. the Public's Right to Information
• Children's Rights to Information
• The Ethics of Internet Regulation
• Librarians and the USA Patriot Act
• Copyright and CopyLeft
• The Ethics of the Open Source Movement
• Diversity in Librarianship
• Monitoring in the Workplace: Ethical Perspectives on Personnel Policies
• The Ethics of Service to Underserved Population
• Preserving World Cultures
• The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• UNESCO and Information Ethics
• Issues in Information Ethics in Fiction
• Issues in Information Ethics in Film