Special issues in librarianship
The library literature suggests several areas in which new or substantively modified ethical issues may be identified. Leaving aside issues such as copyright enforcement, which areclearly legal issues, and problems such as rude electronic mail messages, which are clearly matters of etiquette, the general areas of concern include:
- privacy and confidentiality;
- acquisitions and censorship;
- archiving and preservation; and
- deskilling and gender bias.
The remainder of this article considers each of these areas in turn