Info679: Essential Readings: The Biggies

Key Readings: If you read nothing else, read these:

Weeks 1-3 (This list is complete.)

Elrod and Smith. 2005. Information ethics. In The Encyclopeida of Science, Technology, and Ethics. See Hagerty Library's electronic reference.

Smith, M. 1992 Infoethics for leaders, in Library Trends, Winter, 1992. See if the text is online or look for it in your local library or order from ILL. (Your searching skills are very important in this class.)

Capurro, R. Information technologies and technologies of the self. http://icie.zkm.de This is the website for the International Center for Information Ethics

Moor, J. Just consequentialism and computing, in Spinello and Tavani (2nd ed.) Text for the course.

Floridi, L. and Sanders, J. W. The foundationalist debate in computer ethics, in Spinello and Tavani (2nd ed.) Text.

Weeks 4-6 (More for these weeks will be posted later.)

Winner, Do artifacts have politics? See text on Infoethicist blog. Note the date when this was written.

Smith, Global information justice. Library Trends. (See how many indexes lead you to the full text of the article. Also, see if which libraries in your local area have Library Trends or other periodicals in the field of library and information science.)


Weeks 6-10 (More will be added here.)

Lessig, L. The laws of cyberspace, in Spinello and Tavani (2nd ed.) Text.
Also see Lessig's presence on the web. Try Clusty http://www.clusty.com ; also Kartoo http://www.kartoo.com ; try Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com Look for Lessig in the literature of library and information science.

Anytime

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.unesco.org

ALA: Code of Ethics and Intellectual Freedom Statement http://www.ala.org

ACM: Code of Ethics http://www.acm.org Also in Spinello and Tavani (2nd ed.)

Info679: The Traditions of Librarianship

The Tradition of Librarianship

as They Inform Information Ethics
Access
Intellectual Freedom
Freedom to Read
Privacy and Confidentiality
Service
Balanced Collections
Professional Neutrality
Respect for All (including employees)

On the traditions of librarianship, see the website of the American Library Association (http://www.ala.org ) and other resources on the history of librarianship, particularly in the United States.

Access

Intellectual Freedom

Freedom to Read

Privacy and Confidentiality

Service

Balanced Collections

Professional Neutrality

Respect for All (including employees)

Keep these in mind as we move through the term together.

Info679: Shall We Wiki?

Blogs and now wiki's. Take a look at the Wiki world.

This is the key wiki we'll talk about this term. Shall we contribute an article about Information Ethics for Wikipedia? Set up an account and see how it works.
http://www.wikipedia.org

Also take a look at http://www.liswiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

We'll not only talk about using wiki tools and contributing to them, but also consider starting wiki groups ourselves and the big topic of social networking in cyberspace.

Info679: Free Access to Information from Libraries Unlimited

Free Access to Information from Libraries Unlimited

One of the most useful ways that publishers can promote themselves is to invite free access to their sources. In this case, Libraries Unlimited has given open access to the Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science. As publishers struggles to know what business models will work in the new information environment, initiatives like this are to be applauded. We'll look for other examples of this kind of service from other publishers. Think about this: If you were working for a publisher in library and information science or in another academic field, how would you envision the future both for business and for social responsibility. See below:

http://www.lu.com/odlis