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Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Legal Issues and Ethical Challenges in the New Information Era

Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Legal Issues and Ethical Challenges in the New Information Era
Author: Tomas A. Lipinski
Price: $118.50
ISBN-10: 1461669219
ISBN-13: 9781461669210
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How can libraries, museums, and archives update their policies to balance legal requirements with the needs of their users? Although such issues have always permeated the information environment, traditional responses are no longer enough. This in-depth treatment provides concrete background and guidelines for every library, museum, or archive, no matter what the size or mission.

Issues related to the components of the collection, gifts, and donations (real property and tax implications), rights to privacy, users' rights of access, copyright and information control, and responsibility for safety in public spaces are covered in depth. A complete chapter is devoted to a discussion of the proper structure and elements of library, museum, or archives policy content-a superb blueprint for effective policy drafting at all levels of the institutional lifecycle. Finally, a resource list of ethical and legal materials in print and on the Web points the way to a wealth of highly specific and useful information. Timely and essential.