Comments on: Taking your personal ethics to your workplace. http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/01/taking-your-personal-ethics-to-your-workplace/ It is and we do. Musing, enthusing, libraries, emerging technologies, balancing, being mum. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:33:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Medical Librarian http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/01/taking-your-personal-ethics-to-your-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-39082 Medical Librarian Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:51:51 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/01/taking-your-personal-ethics-to-your-workplace/#comment-39082 That's a really interesting post! I haven't thought of ethics in my job since working as a casual in public libraries. I much preferred working in the low socio-economic areas where the library made a such an impact for language and literacy services. Now in a health library, I like to think I am helping medical research and sick patients without having to face the blood and guts! That’s a really interesting post! I haven’t thought of ethics in my job since working as a casual in public libraries. I much preferred working in the low socio-economic areas where the library made a such an impact for language and literacy services.
Now in a health library, I like to think I am helping medical research and sick patients without having to face the blood and guts!

]]> By: morgan http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/01/taking-your-personal-ethics-to-your-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-38885 morgan Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:07:07 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/01/taking-your-personal-ethics-to-your-workplace/#comment-38885 Apologies for the delayed response, for the last week or so, I've taken a little holiday from my blog reading. How interesting, I didn't know you used to work in a law firm! That sounds like it wouldn't have been a good time or place to be a librarian in a law firm. That business about charging that one client all of the miscellaneous research time sounds very irregular. I can also understand why you would have had mixed feelings about that. Apologies for the delayed response, for the last week or so, I’ve taken a little holiday from my blog reading. How interesting, I didn’t know you used to work in a law firm! That sounds like it wouldn’t have been a good time or place to be a librarian in a law firm. That business about charging that one client all of the miscellaneous research time sounds very irregular. I can also understand why you would have had mixed feelings about that.

]]> By: Andrew http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/01/taking-your-personal-ethics-to-your-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-38641 Andrew Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:57:31 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/01/taking-your-personal-ethics-to-your-workplace/#comment-38641 A nice post. I have to admit that one of the reasons that my stay in academic libraries *was* because I didn't have that feeling that I was "doing good". In fact, I felt very much like I was losing touch with the real world, and that much of what Information Literacy entailed is far, far removed from what the average person uses and needs in society. However, these days working in a public library, whilst we're "doing good", I often wonder if I'm doing <i>enough</i> good, for the amount of resources that go into providing a library service. My library is in a suburb where there is a pretty low socio-economic demographic, located within a shopping centre, and we have a wide range of services and programs, and yet usage, especially circulation stats, is pretty low. It would be even lower if we didn't have free internet access and playstation/xbox consoles. Yes, we provide a safe place for those few people in our society who don't have anywhere else to go, but I often feel that we'd be far better off replacing the library with a community youth recreation centre, staffed by social workers, and leave readership and literacy to the teacher librarians in the local schools. A nice post. I have to admit that one of the reasons that my stay in academic libraries *was* because I didn’t have that feeling that I was “doing good”. In fact, I felt very much like I was losing touch with the real world, and that much of what Information Literacy entailed is far, far removed from what the average person uses and needs in society.

However, these days working in a public library, whilst we’re “doing good”, I often wonder if I’m doing enough good, for the amount of resources that go into providing a library service. My library is in a suburb where there is a pretty low socio-economic demographic, located within a shopping centre, and we have a wide range of services and programs, and yet usage, especially circulation stats, is pretty low. It would be even lower if we didn’t have free internet access and playstation/xbox consoles. Yes, we provide a safe place for those few people in our society who don’t have anywhere else to go, but I often feel that we’d be far better off replacing the library with a community youth recreation centre, staffed by social workers, and leave readership and literacy to the teacher librarians in the local schools.

]]> By: Michelle McLean http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/01/taking-your-personal-ethics-to-your-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-38622 Michelle McLean Sat, 31 May 2008 21:18:25 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/01/taking-your-personal-ethics-to-your-workplace/#comment-38622 Nicely put. Thanks for giving yet another side to the picture and raising some interesting points. A good work ethic is important regardless of the job and its one I learned from my parents and hopefully will be able to teach to my children too. Nicely put. Thanks for giving yet another side to the picture and raising some interesting points. A good work ethic is important regardless of the job and its one I learned from my parents and hopefully will be able to teach to my children too.

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