9.1 Values & Issues: Information ethics

You and your fellow students have paid tuition and taxes into a common pool to buy books and other materials, and to pay for the selection, processing, organization and housing of those materials. You can now share in the benefits from that mass of material, with the only limit to your benefit being the amount of time and energy you invest.

Role of Librarians
The librarians enhance the benefits you can gain by promoting particular values and principles of library and information service.

• Collection of resources that would most likely meet your needs
• Effective intellectual access to the content of resources through the library catalog, the classification system, or the indexes to periodical articles.
• Convenient access or delivery of resources to you in any format
• Intellectual freedom (no censorship) and the protection of your privacy

Your Role
And finally, creating the wonder of library service takes some responsibility on your part. You are, after all, responsible for making the most of your investment in the pool of library resources. Only you can ask questions. Only you can read and learn. Also, the responsible use of library resources by yourself and others helps insure that those resources are accessible and available to yourself and others on a continuing basis.

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