Please forward URLs of any professional associations which have not as yet been included in this collection. Also, should the Web site be in a language other than English, French, or Spanish, please point to the ethics statement, if it exists on the site.

Librarian and Information Manager Web sites are organized on this page by content first (contain/do not contain ethics or mission statements, then by country, and finally in English alphabetical order. Organizational Index by Country and ISO3166 two number code

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Ethics Links to Librarian and Information Manager Associations WWW Pages

Conceived and executed by Wallace Koehler , Associate Professor at the Library and Information Studies Program at Valdosta State University.

Codes of ethics and standards of practice are distinguished from organizational missions, aims, and objectives. The former are for individual members and practitioners. The latter apply to the organization.

The links on this page have been grouped into the following categories:

Ethics Pages

Those professional associations that publish codes of ethics to the WWW are listed first, by country, together with a brief description of the ethics code with pointers to the code of ethics pages. There are many international (make that transnational) and regional organizations that represent national organizations, or have individual members in many countries with codes of ethics published.

Librarian and Information Managers Associations Codes of Ethics take two general forms. They may be either general and provide guidelines that their adherents should aspire to comply with. These are termed "aspirational." Other Codes of Ethics provide specific, often very specific prescriptive or proscriptive rules that are obligatory.

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ( IFLA ) Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression ( FAIFE ) Website is a very important information and ethics resource.

Mission Statements

Several librarian and information management associations publish professional statutes or bylaws to the WWW. Those which publish such pointers, but without ethics pages, are listed second. There are many international (make that transnational) and regional organizations that represent national organizations, or have individual members in many countries with mission statements published.

Other Organizations

A number of professional associations have a Web presence but have not published either codes of ethics or statutes to the Web. Links to their home pages are provided. They may, however, have published objectives or aims.

This list is by no means definitive nor is it intended to be. Its primary focus is on associations organized at the national level, although a number of regional and subnational groups are described.

There are several lists of librarian associations available either on the Web or in print. These include the IFLA membership list and Gale. In addition, a major list of information associations is maintained by the CSU School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University.

Association descriptions are frequently quoted from the Web site. Quotations are enclosed in quotation marks ("..."). If the citation was taken from the association name link, no further citation is provided. If a quote were taken from a different page, the quote is ended with a link marked " ", the citation source.

Potential WWW Resources for the Librarian and Information Manager

Miscellaneous links to online resources are provided. These are not systematically collected and are offered for information only.

Other Resources:

International and Regional Organizations -- Codes of Ethics & Mission Statements

These Organizations consist primarily of association membership, although many maintain both institutional and individual memberships. Institutional memberships can include libraries, universities, librarianship schools, commercial enterprises, and associations.

These organizations may be either intergovernmental (IGO) or non-governmental (NGO). The number of IGOs is limited. The term "regional" is used here in an "international context." It connotes supranational organizations with limited and usually defined membership -- continental, language groups, commonwealth, or other transnational relationship.

Like the national and sub-national organizations, international and regional orgsanizations vary in degree and complexity. Most offer mission, aims, purposes, and objectives statements. Relatively few provide ethics codes.

These are organized according to those with ethics codes followed by those with objectives or missions statements or where no code was found.

National Subdivisions  

Canadian Provincial and Regional Organizations

French Departement & Territoire d'Outre Mer

United States State and Regional Organizations

Note that the absence of a Web ethics or standards statement or a homepage does not necessarily indicate that the association has no published codes or standards. It means the association may not have published them to the Web [or that we were unable to find them.

Countries where associations or organizations have been identified are follwed by the codes "C-M-O" "C" indicates a code of ethics was found, "M" indicates a mission statement was found, and "O" means the organization was found.
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