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Freedom

Accessibility and quality

Verifiable information

Openness and diversity

Collaboration

Respect and civility

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By-Laws & Articles of Continuance

CHLA-ABSC By-laws (May, 2014): Amendments to the 2013 By-Laws were confirmed at AGM June 19, 2014.

CHLA-ABSC Certificate of Continuance (December, 2013): The Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (S.C. 2009, c. 23) is the default set of rules for all organizations and applies to many situations within CHLA/ABSC By-laws.

CHLA/ABSC Code of Ethics (1997)

CHLA/ABSC is committed to providing and developing resources which promote excellence in health and healthcare and support continuous learning. In doing so, members call upon their own expertise and judgement to provide the best information available to their clients. Members exercise the highest level of professional commitment and uphold the following code of ethics in their pursuit of excellence.

Goals and Principles for Ethical Conduct

The health sciences librarian believes that knowledge is the sine qua non of informed decisions in health care, education, and research and the health sciences librarian serves society, clients, and the institution by working to ensure that informed decisions can be made.

Society

The health sciences librarian promotes access to health information for all and creates and maintains conditions of freedom of inquiry, thought, and expression that facilitate informed health care decisions.

Clients

The health sciences librarian works without prejudice to meet the client's information needs.

The health sciences librarian respects the privacy of clients and protects the confidentiality of the client relationship.

The health sciences librarian ensures that the best available information is provided to the client.

Institution

The health sciences librarian provides leadership and expertise in the design, development and ethical management of knowledge-based information systems that meet the information needs and obligations of the institution.

Profession

The health sciences librarian advances and upholds the philosophy and ideals of the profession.

The health sciences librarian advocates and advances the knowledge and standards of the profession.

The health sciences librarian conducts all professional relationships with courtesy and respect.

The health sciences librarian maintains high standards of professional integrity.

Self

The health sciences librarian assumes personal responsibility for developing and maintaining professional excellence.
Download the CHLA-ABSC Code of Ethics in PDF format for printing and posting.

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CHLA-ABSC By-laws (May, 2014): Amendments to the 2013 By-Laws were confirmed at AGM June 19, 2014. CHLA-ABSC Certificate of Continuance (December, 2013): The Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (S.C. 2009, c. 23) is the default set of rules for all organizations and applies to many situations within CHLA/ABSC By-laws.

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Promotes access to health information for all

Creates and maintains conditions of freedom for inquiry, thought, and expression

Expertise to provide the best information available

Upholds philosophy and ideals of the profession (openness and diversity)

Conducts professional relationships with courtesy and respect

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In a very wiki way, values only stay values while most agree with them.

Wikimedia Foundation values

An essential part of the Wikimedia Foundation's mission is encouraging the development of free-content educational resources that may be created, used, and reused by the entire human community. We believe that this mission requires thriving open formats and open standards on the web to allow the creation of content not subject to restrictions on creation, use, and reuse.

At the creation level, we want to provide the editing community with freely-licensed tools for participation and collaboration. Our community should also have the freedom to fork thanks to freely available dumps.

The community will in turn create a body of knowledge which can be distributed freely throughout the world, viewable or playable by free software tools.

All the legal freedom to modify or distribute educational content is useless if users cannot get access to it.

We try our best to give online access to high quality Wikimedia project content 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, as well as provide access to regularly updated, user-friendly, and free dumps of Wikimedia project content.

We try, through partnerships if necessary, to ensure the widest distribution, through DVD's, books, PDF's, or other non-internet based means.

To ensure world-wide, unrestricted, dissemination of knowledge, we do not enter into exclusive partnerships, with regards to access to our content or use of our trademarks.

As a non-profit, we mostly depend on gifts to operate (donations, grants, sponsorship, etc.). It is very important to us to ensure our organization stays free of influence in the way it operates. For this reason, we strictly follow a donation policy, reserve the right to refuse donations which could generate constraints, and try to multiply the diversity of revenue sources.

Though US-based, the organization is international in its nature. Our board of trustees, staff members, and volunteers are involved without discrimination based on their religion, political beliefs, sexual preferences, nationalities, etc... Not only do we accept diversity, but we actually look forward to it.

We must communicate Wikimedia Foundation information in a transparent, thorough and timely manner, to our communities and more generally, to the public.

We are a community-based organization. We must operate with a mix of staff members, and of volunteers, working together to achieve our mission.

We support community-led collaborative projects, and must respect the work and the ideas of our communities. We must listen and take into account our communities in any decisions taken to achieve our mission.

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In a very wiki way, values only stay values while most agree with them. An essential part of the Wikimedia Foundation's mission is encouraging the development of free-content educational resources that may be created, used, and reused by the entire human community.