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See now I would think the Ethics course would be more of a "Miss Manners" type intro into the world of information searching. Reason being, I get emails that infuriate me...like ones TELLING me, "I'm using one of your articles for my newsletter." Well, gee...I'm going to use your car to run my errands, too...and bring it back on empty. How do you like that?

The thing is, people assume so much in their research of things. They don't do their homework beforehand (and I'm not referring to you, dear girl) and they look for shortcuts.

So to me, it would be unethical for a information specialist to grab one of my articles, give it to their clients, and say "use this." That's one example...

But another one would be email people when it is unsoliticed and when you are trying to get their business.

Another would be to grab info without getting permission (which goes back to the first one, but could be different, too)

And then again.................you may just want to tell me to go back to sleep. LOL!

I've seen "specialist" who offer the world through advertising, skills they DO NOT possess or have never used...yet they call themselves "specialist." Just another.




It would not bother me if someone quoted me...and cited credit to me as the author. However that is difficult to follow-up if the person ever did..ESPECIALLY with the faceless/anonymous Internet world of people worldwide. Plagarism was always a problem even in academic instituations, but now we have more Internet participants..including children and teenagers..who do research on the Internet.

Librarians struggle with practical application and theoretical debates on issues of privacy, intellectual property violations and sheer ignorance of information literacy ...or shall we say lack of skills how to analyze your sources --both author's /an organization mandate, how research (if any) did/did not support an article's main argument, etc.

Yonuh, do any of your courses require you to do research in non-electronic information sources? Any MLS program worth its salt, demands this from its students because the publishers still produce a pile of brand-new information annually..only in print.

For any young person, I would advise an MLS program that would only be partially online. There are some mandatory courses, particularily on the management side plus skills in public speaking/debate which any young person would benefit enormously of live group discussion and in-your-face questioning/grilling from classmates. It has to mimic reality --defending a $2 million dollar budget in the glare of municipal council and the tv cameras or having news reporters after you on other library issues...and censorship matter in your library...requires face-to-face interaction of how your peers would react to you as well as others.
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