Libraries, Museums, and Archives (eBook, ePUB)

Legal Issues and Ethical Challenges in the New Information Era
Redaktion: Lipinski, Tomas A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How can libraries, museums, and archives update their policies to balance legal requirements with the needs of their users? Although such issues have always permeated the information environment, traditional responses are no longer enough. This in-depth treatment provides concrete background and guidelines for every library, museum, or archive, no matter what the size or mission. Issues related to the components of the collection, gifts, and donations (real property and tax implications), rights to privacy, users' rights of access, copyright and information control, and responsibility for safety in public spaces are covered in depth. A complete chapter is devoted to a discussion of the proper structure and elements of library, museum, or archives policy content-a superb blueprint for effective policy drafting at all levels of the institutional lifecycle. Finally, a resource list of ethical and legal materials in print and on the Web points the way to a wealth of highly specific and useful information. Timely and essential.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461669210
• Artikelnr.: 74626064

Autorenporträt

Tomas A. Lipinski is Co-Director and Assistant Professor at the Center for Information Policy Research School of Library and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 PART 1: WORKING WITH THE COLLECTION
Chapter 5 1 Deeds of Gift: Carressing the Hand that Feeds
Chapter 6 2 The Appraiser and the Appraisal: What Makes a Book Valuable?
Chapter 7 3 Tort Theory in Library, Museum, and Archival Collections,
Materials, Exhibits, and Displays: Rights of Privacy and Publicity in
Personal Information and Persona
Chapter 8 4 Censorship and Controversial Materials in Museums, Libraries,
and Archives
Part 9 PART 2: SPECIAL ISSUES IN MUSEUM COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
Chapter 10 5 Legal and Ethical Foundations of Museum Collecting Policies
Chapter 11 6 Collections Managment: Hypothetical Cases, Acquisitions,
Deaccessions, and Loans
Part 12 PART 3: WORKING WITH PATRONS
Chapter 13 7 Legal Issues Involved in the Privacy Rights of Patrons in
"Public" Libraries and Archives
Chapter 14 8 Welcome to...The Legal Responsibility to Offer Accessible
Electronic Information to Patrons with Disabilities
Chapter 15 9 Seven Levels of Safety: Protecting People in Public Buildings
Part 16 PART 4: ETHICAL CHALLENGES
Chapter 17 10 The Fight of the Century? Information Ethics versus
E-Commerce
Chapter 18 11 Information Ethics: Its Demarcation and Application
Chapter 19 12 Organizing Ethics in Archives, Museums, and Libraries:
Challenges and Strategies for Meeting Ethical Responsibilites
Part 20 PART 5: COPYRIGHT AND OTHER OWNERSHIP ISSUES
Chapter 21 13 Copyright for Libraries, Museums, and Archives: The Basics
and Beyond
Chapter 22 14 Copyright Protection and Technological Reform of Library
Services: Digital Change, Practical Applications, and Congressional Action
Chapter 23 15 Legal-Technological Regulation of Information Access
Part 24 PART 6: IMPLEMENTATION OF LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONCEPTS
Chapter 25 16 Getting Started: Legal and Ethical Resources
Chapter 26 17 Designing, Drafting, and Implementing New Policies
Chapter 27 18 Agents of Change: Planning, Communication, and Implementation
Strategies
Chapter 28 Index