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Foundation of Library and Information Science

Notes The features of the Code relate to:
the competency of the librarian;
the question of discretion and respect of a client’s privacy;

professional independence and intellectual freedom;
the impartiality of the library profession;
financial ethics; and
the integrity of members.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:

13. …………….. Ethical code attempted to define and regulate the relations of librarians to the
governing authority.
14. In 1975 ALA adopted a new Statement on Professional Ethics which replaced the
……………… code.
15. The ASIS Code of Ethics for Informational Professionals has, however, remained in draft
form pending acceptance by the Association’s ……………………..

16. The features of the ……………… Code relate to the competency of the librarian.

Case Study Engineering College Libraries

oday, engineers require not only adequate technological ability and problem
solving skills, but also skills like cooperation, communication, and presentation
Tskills, business ethics and inter-personal relationship. They must have deep
commitment to safety, reliability, quality and sustainability of all engineering operations
in which they take part. Engineering colleges have now a new responsibility to provide
opportunities to every engineering student or professional to acquire these abilities in
addition to their technological knowledge. Hence, excellent engineering colleges are
essential to prepare engineers with good knowledge and skills. Teachers, laboratories
and libraries are important components in imparting effective engineering education to
them.
The objective of an engineering college library is to assist engineering professionals in
enhancing and updating their knowledge and skills, and to provide them information
regarding new innovations, views, theories, engineering education, and research. The
primary role of engineering college library is to collect and organize recorded information
in engineering and allied subjects to meet the needs of users. Information and
Communication Technologies are increasingly used to collect, store, retrieve and
disseminate a great amount of information to help engineering professionals. Library
survey is “a systematic collection of data concerning libraries, their activities, operations,
staff use and users, at a given time or over a given period”. Library surveys are conducted
to study the existing library conditions, library facilities, library personnel, nature of
users and non-users, library services, library resources; to compare the present conditions

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