Cokie Anderson

author of Ethical Decision Making for Digital Libraries

November 4, 2015

Cokie Anderson is an associate professor and electronic publishing librarian at Oklahoma State University, and is the director of the OSU Library's Electronic Publishing Center. She joined the OSU faculty in March 2000 and has worked since that time on developing the library's electronic collections. Notable projects include the digitization of Decisions of the Indian Claims Commission, the National Endowment of the Humanities We the People project "From Warrior to Saint: The Journey of David Pendleton Oakerhater" funded by an Oklahoma Humanities Council grant and the online versions of Oklahoma Today, the state magazine, and the NEH-funded Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. All of EPC's publications may be accessed at http://digital.library.okstate.edu/.

Anderson has acted as a consultant on digital projects for the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma School of Law and CareerTech, and serves on the editorial board of The Electronic Library and the advisory council of Amigos Library Services. She is also the co-author with David Maxwell of Starting a Digitization Center (Chandos 2004).

Ethical Decision Making for Digital Libraries examines the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in digital libraries, and the codes of conduct, professional guidelines and ethics resources used in resolving them. It begins with an overview of classical and applied ethics, then reviews the codes of conduct of professional information societies (libraries, archivists, information technology). It examines issues and situations that arise in digitization and digital library management and explores the ways established information ethics can be applied and adapted to these cases. Areas covered include ethical questions in selection of materials, intellectual property, funding, standards, site design, open access initiatives, journal licensing, collaborative projects, digital preservation, outsourcing and one's responsibilities to one's employer/institution, one's patrons/users, funding agencies, professional associations and the worldwide information community.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2008-honorees/cokie-anderson

Last Updated: 14 January 2022