Ethical Issues in Collection Development

This overview looks at ethical issues and questions that arise in collection development. It analyzes the Code of Ethics of the American Library Association (ALA) to highlight different elements of the code and how they relate to collections, and looks at ethics in libraries' collection development policies. Issues that involve individual bibliographers as well as managers of collection development are addressed. Ethical dilemmas involving interactions and information obtained from vendors are examined. Lastly, questions of ethics and bias as they relate to gifts and remote access to resources are covered.