governmental universities in relation to draft code of professional ethics of Iranian librarians and information specialists and offering a framework for final code

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

fatemeh zandian ¹ , masomeh latifi ² , hasan siamian ³

1 - Department of Library and Information Science, Tarbiat Modares University
2 - Tarbiat Modares University
3 - Department of Library and Information Science, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

Received: 2008-03-29 Accepted : 2008-07-16 Published : 2009-02-19

Keywords: Code of professional ethics, Ethical code, Academic librarian,

Abstract :

The present project has been performed to study attitudes of university libraries of the country towards a draft code of professional ethics of Iranian librarians and information specialists and provide a model for planning final code of ethics. For collecting date in this study questionnaires have been used. These questionnaires have been designed on the basis of draft code of professional ethics of Iranian Library and Information Science Association, Qom Branch. It is notable that this draft codified according to complied and written ethical code of librarianship for 38 countries available in the IFLA site and published as a book. For accepting or rejecting of research hypotheses, Mann-Whitney U-test and Kruskall-Wallis test, and for answering to the project questions, Friedman test have been utilized. Result of Friedman test showed that preferences of code of professional ethics based on academic librarians' viewpoint are responsibility to self, society, user, colleagues, field, organization, and profession, respectively.