Today's focus was on intellectual freedom, ethics, and privacy issues for librarianship. I believe that these are the foundation of what libraries represent and what is guaranteed to every citizen in our Declaration of Independence. The American Library Association outlines these beliefs in their Core of Librarianship, Code of Ethics, and Library Bill of Rights. These can be accessed at http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/index.cfm from the Office of Intellectual Freedom, a division of ALA.
Adina Mulliken, a reference librarian from S. U. spent a few minutes talking about web accessibility for people with disabilities. She provided us with a handout with websites to check out. I did not realize the availability of a website checker that can show a webpage's accessibility by revealing embedded icons on the page. This can help determine if a website would provide obstacles for people with disabilities that wished to view the site. This WAVE accessibility checker can be accessed at http://wave.webaim.org/.
Since I will be working in school libraries, I was happy to hear from a school media specialist today who talked about her library space and the challenges she is facing in a different school district that provides her with a lower budget than the district where she used to work. Tomorrow we will also be having a panel of school librarians to talk in more detail about their facet of librarianship.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
.JPG)
No comments:
Post a Comment