REVEAL Project 6. Ethics of Information Organisation

Video 6 in the REVEAL Project series, led by Dr David McMenemy at the University of Glasgow and supported by the CILIPS Research Fund, focuses on the ethics of information organisation.

Themes include the importance of cataloguing and classification, controversial issues, intelligent design, The Cataloguing Code of Ethics, and the decolonisation of collections.

Return to the REVEAL Project homepage or select another section:

1. What is Advocacy?
2. Ethical Theories and Key Ethical Thinkers in Libraries
3. The CILIP Ethical Framework
4. Privacy and Libraries
5. Freedom of Expression and Libraries
6. Ethics of Information Organisation
7. Intellectual Property and Libraries
8. Contemporary Ethical Concerns in Library Provision
9. Experiences of the Scottish Library Workforce
10. How to Do Values-Driven Advocacy

REVEAL Resources

1. REVEAL Project Literature Review
2. Rhetoric and Library Advocacy (pdf version)
3. Rhetoric and Library Advocacy (png version)
4. S.R. Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science (pdf version)
5. S.R. Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science (png version)
6. Michael Gorman’s 8 Enduring Values of Librarianship (pdf version)
7. Michael Gorman’s 8 Enduring Values of Librarianship (png version)
8. A Truly Great Library – Jo Godwin (pdf version)
9. A Truly Great Library – Jo Godwin (png version)
10. Open to all – except the censor… President John F. Kennedy (pdf version)
11. Open to all – except the censor… President John F. Kennedy (png version)