By reviewing the following sources; respond to the following task:
1) Librarians and ethical neutrality: revisiting The Creed of a Librarian by David McMenemy
2) A practical guide for building a digital library by Qin Zhu and Sophia Guevara
3) E-Resources and Technology Issues by evans and saponaro
4) Building an Internet of Things environment in the Library by May Chang
5) The digital library by Andrew Prescott
6) Collection development policies for the digital age by Wendy Shaw
7) Use of Data in Collections Work: An Exploratory Survey by Jeanne M. Brown & Eva D. Stowers
Assignment: case studies - collection and ethical issues
Instructions:
Part 1:
You are instructed by (News For You) NFY’s Chief Information Officer to develop a policy for the development and management of a largely digital collection, a plan for evaluating the collection in future years and an outline of the main budgetary issues.
Note:
(1) You need to outline a collection policy appropriate to the organisation, information services and collection that formed the subject of the NFY case study in Assignment. Note that the collection will consist of more than the 20-30 indicative resources outlined in Assignment 1. Be sure to include strategies for the preservation of information resources, where appropriate (this obviously does not apply to resources such as subscription databases).
(2) Your plan for evaluation should address how you would go about evaluation and which methods you think appropriate (collection- versus user-orientated approaches).
(3) Your discussion of budgetary issues should factor in issues specific to the digital information environment.
Where elements of any existing collection development/management policies have been incorporated or adapted be sure to reference them, just as you would any other resource that has specifically informed your thinking.
Part 2:
Select a different type of organisation from the one used in Assignment, such as a different type of company, a government department, educational institution or archive.
(1) Outline one significant ethical dilemma that its information manager might face and explain briefly why it is significant. Note that this must represent a dilemma, in other words, there must be a clearly identifiable conflict of obligations and/or ethical principles.
(2) Explain clearly what criteria you would use to resolve the dilemma or at least find a way forward for the information manager.
(3) Explain briefly why you think or don’t think that codes of ethics have any significant value in the workplace.
There is no set word limit for this part but it should clearly be significantly briefer than your response to Part 1.
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