Internet Librarian: Library Blogs–Ethics and Guidelines
Tue 25 Oct 2005, 2:35 pm
Karen Schneider of Librarian’s Internet Index and Free Range Librarian
Again, K.G. Schneider has already posted to her blog about this talk, and links to her PPT slides there. So I’ll just hit a few points from her very good talk here.
Her talk focused on five major areas:
- Be transparent
- Cite source
- Get it right
- Be fair
- Admit mistakes
Why do ethics matter? When librarians blog, we represent librarianship.
What we write is “the last stop between the reader and the truth.” Don’t expect your readers to do background research on what you write.
There is nothing more pathetic than a librarian who gets the facts wrong.
When in doubt, do what you know to be right.
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