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Education
 PhD, University of California, Irvine,
Philosophy
MA, University of California, Irvine, Philosophy
BA, Summa
cum Laude, University of California, Santa Cruz, Philosophy
Biography
Kay is a Senior Lecturer with a focus on Information
Ethics. Kay received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of
California, Irvine. Her dissertation focused on the moral and
political importance of social groups. When visiting SIRLS in
1998, she developed an interest in ethical issues surrounding libraries
and librarianship. At that time, she created and was the first to
teach “Ethics for Library and Information Professionals.” Since
then, Kay has continued her research and teaching both on information
ethics and on the ethical and political status of social groups.
Recently, she has brought together these two areas of research in her
work on the rights of indigenous peoples to their cultural information.
Teaching Areas
Ethics
for Library and Information Professionals
Intellectual Freedom and Libraries
Intellectual Property
Applied Ethics and Ethical Theory
Social and Political Theory
Research Areas
Information Ethics and the Library Profession
Information Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Social and Political
Theory
Applied Ethics and Ethical Theory
Social Epistemology
Selected Publications and Presentations
"What
is Information Ethics?" Computers
and Society, Vol. 32, No. 8, 2004.
"The Ethical Presuppositions Behind the Library
Bill of Rights" [with Martin Frické and Don Fallis] Library Quarterly, Vol. 70, No.
4, 2000.
"Who's to Blame? Individual and Collective
Responsibility" Brantl Lecture Series, Montclair State University, March
10, 2005.
"Liberal Theory and the Collective Right to
Privacy" 2nd Annual
Information Ethics Roundtable, Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts, May 2, 2004.
"Virtue Ethics and Rescuers of Jews in the
Holocaust" [with Kristen Monroe and Jack Kraypo] Annual Review of Law and Ethics,
1998.
Notable Projects & Activities
2005-present, Guest Editor, special issue of Journal of Information Ethics
2000-present, Editorial Board, Journal
of International Women’s Studies
2005-present, Guest
Editor, special issue of Social Epistemology on
“Collective Knowledge”
2003-present, Co-organizer, Information Ethics Roundtable
2001, Creator,
“Information and Society” core course for the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
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