For Your Enrichment: Ethical Issues in Reference: An In-Depth View from the Librarians’ Perspective

Lili Luo

Abstract


It is always good to reflect occasionally on professional ethics and the implications of those ethics in library practice. In this paper, based on a presentation given by the author at the 2014 IFLA satellite meeting “Ethical Dilemmas in the Information Society: How Codes of Ethics Help to Find Ethical Solutions,” August 14–15, 2014, Lili Luo examines some ethical issues addressed in contemporary reference work and reports on the results of a survey of reference librarians.—Editor

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.55n3.188

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