1. Discuss how the author, the publisher, the faculty member, the library, and the students can be accommodated.
The author, publisher, faculty member, library, and students can accommodate the situation by selling half of the text books to the library and half to the faculty members. Giving half to the library will allow the students to borrow them from the library to work on if their instructors give them any to do from the text books.
2. How can a fair arrangement be achieved?
A fair arrangement can be achieved by allowing students and faculty members access to the text books by simply selling a portion of the books to the library. Thus, allowing everyone the ability to borrow the books and in return, the author will receive his or her payment.
3. What are the challenges in creating a fair arrangement for everyone?
The challenges in creating a fair arrangement for everyone really depends on how many available copies of books there are. Certain people in certain areas may demand certain numbers of books, but the publisher might not have that many books that has been published to give.
Research Log Entry
1. How can a balance be achieved between protecting privacy and meeting the needs of national security?
A balance can be achieved between protecting privacy and meeting the needs of national security is by allowing one to keep track of all information. For example, the library has records of websites, books, papers, and people. Although students may not be able to fully access these categories information for research purposes, they will only be given brief information for confidential reasons.
2. How did you react to the list of challenged books? Do you think some books should be banned or should all books be freely available? Why?
The list of challenged books really caught me off guard. Although the information given were not what I expected, I would not consider banning the books. Books with violence, profanities and sexual readings should be overlooked twice and perhaps be considered banned. For example, a child reads a book about thugs and what they do to people, the child may take that into regards and decide to do it themselves.
3. How have your overall ideas about information ethics changed or not changed after completing this unit?
My overall ideas about information ethics have changed me quite a bit. Although I was already familiar with some of the ideas, it was very interesting to be reminded of the ideas and to learn some of the new ideas.
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Copyright: Unfortunately, neither the faculty nor the library has the resources to buy half the books. That's one of the challenges. For example, for many years, libraries used to buy more than one copy of a highly used book; that's no longer the case. Now, libraries can't even buy all the titles they want to buy for students.
ReplyDeletePrivacy: Do you really think it's okay to allow all information to be tracked? Libraries don't actually have records of websites, books, papers, and people. We don't track web sites at all. As for databases, we track how many times each title is accessed, but not who accesses them. That information is never tracked. That is also true of books. As for our patron records (the people), there's a library law that keeps patron records private. We never let anyone know what books a patron borrows unless it's a law enforcement agency that has secured a search warrant. So what you borrow is as private as it can be.
Censorship: I don't agree with you that books, any books, should be banned. I do agree that parents should have a right to manage what their children read, but not beyond that. We'll have to agree to disagree on that one!