Showing posts with label professional ethics codes. Show all posts
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Monday, May 1, 2017

A Commencement Address; Reading, Archives and the Academy Blog, May 1, 2017


Richard Cox, Reading, Archives and the Academy Blog;

A Commencement Address


[Kip Currier: Dr. Richard Cox, a colleague in Pitt's Information Culture and Data Stewardship department, gave a stirring call-to-action commencement address yesterday--focused on ethics, technology, and responsibilities of information professionals.]

"On April 30th I was the speaker at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences commencement ceremony. This was the last commencement of the school, as it becomes the School of Computing and Information on July 1. This was a great honor, and a nice way of marking my own forthcoming retirement on December 31. I was asked to address the topic of the school’s focus on information ethics. Here is the address."