Breakout Session: Copyright: The Ethical Imperative for Librarians. Presented by Martin Garnar, Dean of the Kraemer Family Library, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.

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https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v2i1.6615

Abstract

Martin Garnar, in his presentation “Copyright: The Ethical Imperative for Librarians,” discusses the evolution of the American Library Association's Code of Ethics as an indicator of the changing relationship between librarianship and copyright education. Updates to the Code of Ethics, and in particular the 2014 adoption of an interpretation of Article IV, offer a vision of librarians as active parties in the discussion of intellectual property rights. This interpretation includes a series of statements about what librarians "should" do in their roles as information professionals in order to navigate copyright within their roles and interactions with users, and to uphold a fair balance between rights holders and users.

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Author Biography

  • Gesina A. Phillips, Duquesne University

    Digital Scholarship Librarian
    Duquesne University
    Pittsburgh, PA

References

The American Library Association. (1995). ALA code of ethics, 1995 [Archived version]. Retrieved from https://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=History1&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8875

The American Library Association. (2008, January 22). Code of ethics. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/tools/ethics

The American Library Association. (2014, July 1). Copyright: An interpretation of the code of ethics. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/tools/ethics/

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Published

2018-02-26

How to Cite

Phillips, G. A. (2018). Breakout Session: Copyright: The Ethical Imperative for Librarians. Presented by Martin Garnar, Dean of the Kraemer Family Library, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v2i1.6615