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May 22-23, 2009
Milwaukee Central Library, Centennial Hall
Milwaukee, WI
Information organization (IO), like other major functions of the information profession, faces many ethical challenges. In the IO literature, ethical concerns have been raised with regard to, for example, the role of national and international IO standards, providing subject access to information, deprofessionalization and outsourcing of IO, education of IO professionals, and the effects of globalization. These issues, and others like them, have serious implications for quality and equity in information access. The Center for Information Policy Research and the Information Organization Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee join in presenting this conference to address the ethics of information organization.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Clare Beghtol, Professor
University of Toronto, Canada
José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Professor
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Janet Swan Hill, Professor, Associate Director for Technical Services, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, USA
"RLG Partners participating in discussions about renovating descriptive practices have identified network-level integrating and sharing of metadata contributions as an area that would benefit from collective action. These contributions could come from curators, subject librarians, experts, users, etc., both locally and globally, that can enrich the descriptive metadata created by libraries, archives and museums. To be truly effective, we need to share and aggregate contributions added by users in many diverse environments."
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