Document (#38894)

Author

CannCasciato, D.

Title

Ethical considerations in classification practice : a case study using creationism and intelligent design

Source

Cataloging and classification quarterly. 49(2011) no.5, S.408-427

Year

2011

Abstract

This article re-visits a scenario from 1987: a university president required a library director to reclassify some materials into a science classification. The author looks at the prominence of the Code of Ethics of the American Library Association in the general library literature and in classification and cataloging practice literature. The issue of censorship is also discussed. The author then reviews classification for Creationism and Intelligent design and some decision-making processes one could use when deciding on the professional ethics of such a request, concluding that in some cases the ethical action might indeed be to go ahead with the reclassification.

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