Digitization efforts can present ethical challenges that shape project decisions and public access to materials. This session will use case studies to frame common (and less common) ethics considerations, and share approaches to access, description, and distribution when making digitized content widely available within legal and ethical constraints. Attendees should leave better equipped to recognize and address issues, and aware of resources that can help.

Speaker: Micah Zeller
Micah directs the activities of the Scholarly Communication Services program for Washington University Libraries, where he is responsible for a wide range of institutional rights issues, and helps faculty and students use, create, and publish scholarship in ways that promote its accessibility and impact. Micah works as Co-Editor of the Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship, and is a member of the Missouri Bar and the University Information Policy Officers (UIPO). He helped develop the Missouri Hub to facilitation participation in the DPLA, and serves as IP Reviewer for the Council for Library Information Resources' Digitizing Hidden Special Collections & Archives program. He has a JD from Washington University School of Law, where he oversaw the creation of its institutional repository, and has worked for University Libraries since 2013.