Session Description:
This paper will apply the framework of critical librarianship to assess the role of the ethics of librarianship in both the governance of OCLC and its use by the library community. Although self-defined as a global library cooperative serving users around the globe, OCLC operates legally as a nonprofit corporation governed by a board made up of representatives from the business world as well as the library world. Libraries may have an ethical obligation to hold OCLC to the ethical standards of the profession in order to provide users the unique service the cooperative can provide.
