It would be hard to imagine a more incongruent image. On one side stand SS storm troopers, concentration camps and Stalin's gulag. On the other side, holding back the dark tide, stand librarians and archivists, civilization's first line of defense against totalitarianism. Librarians and archivists are important defenders of liberty because the first thing that […]
Head of National Security Archive says librarians are civilization's 1st defense against totalitarianism >
November 6th, 1997SIS develops information ethics web site >
November 6th, 1997Pitt's School of Information Sciences (SIS) has developed a World Wide Web site dealing with the study and application of ethics to the information field. Barbara Rockenbach, a graduate student in information sciences and the first recipient of the school's information ethics fellowship, recently completed the site under the direction of faculty member Stephen Almagno. […]