Ethics and electronic information : a Festschrift for Stephen Almagno /

This is a warm tribute to Prof. Stephen Almagno in honor of his retirement from the University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science where he helped create and taught the first course in information ethics offered at a library school. The volume's first part presents a biography and bibliography of Almagno along with his "Ma Position Intellectuelle" and tributes from former students and colleagues. The second part features essays on the ethical aspects of library and information technology, including the ethos of trust in librarians, professional codes of ethics, user privacy, the survival of librarianship, universal bibliographic control, plagiarism, watermarking digital objects, ethical hacking, and creating a just worldwide information society. As one would expect from a Festschrift to an inspiring academic who challenged his students, many of these essays are academically oriented and thought-provoking but also timely and relevant. An essay or two specifically on Internet filtering and the USA PATRIOT Act would have been useful. Recommended as supplemental reading for library and information science courses in information ethics.-Robert Battenfeld, Long Island Univ.-Southampton Coll. Lib., NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.