1989: Ethics and the Librarian

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 31, 1989); Edited by F.W. Lancaster

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was the catalyst that established the theme for the Twenty-First Allerton Institute, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Allerton House, October 29-31, 1989. The FBI's Library Awareness Program, if it had any merit, did raise a significant ethical conflict between the librarian's responsibility to preserve the confidentiality surrounding use of library materials and his or her responsibility as a citizen of the United States. The FBI's activities, along with an apparent increase in interest in ethical matters in society as a whole, suggested "professional ethics" as an appropriate theme for a conference of librarians in 1989.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• Introduction - F. W. Lancaster
• Information Ethics In A Complicated Age - Clifford G. Christians
• The FBI Creates An Awareness Of Librarian Ethics: An Opinionated Historical Review - Gerald R. Shields
• Teaching Professional Ethics To Students Of Library And Information Science - Herbert S. White
• Ethics And The Reference Librarian - Charles A. Bunge
• Feeding The Hand That Bites You - Michael B. Wessells
• Ethical Aspects Of The Librarian/Vendor Relationship - Donna Goehner
• Five Assaults On Our Integrity - Robert Hauptman
• The Ethics Of Access: Towards An Equal Slice Of The Pie - Samuel F. Morrison
• Human Resources Management: Ethics In Personnel - Kathleen M. Heim
• Some Ethical Questions For Consideration And Discussion - Robert G. Wengert
  

The Proceedings of the Allerton Park Institute have been digitized through the Open Content Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.