ABSTRACT
Focusing on the moral considerations of any job violates the generally advisable strategy of not taking work too personally. However, for librarianship in a time of transformative change in scholarly communication the ethical dilemmas of collection development are inescapable. Consequently, scholars and research institutions are free to create new modes of scholarly communication. The professional is accountable to the client as to whether the professional is serving the client’s best interests, but the professional is also accountable for the public purpose for which the profession exists.” Publishers and database vendors want to do away with interlibrary loan services for information in digital format. All three of the examples presented feature the potential of an ethical dilemma of choosing between the immediate needs and preferences of our primary clients and our professional responsibility to optimize public access to knowledge.
