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The study aims at defining the concept of ethics and professionalethics in general and then defining the professional ethics ofinformation specialist and his new functions in the digitalenvironment and in the internet environment specifically, as wellas the most famous violations in the cyberspace concerninginformation . The study also discussed the codes amendmentsadopted by professional associations including the AmericanLibrary Associations (ALA) and International Federation of LibraryAssociations (IFLA) .The researchers used the descriptive methodand translated the amended and updated codes of ethics whichcomply with the internet environment .most important results of thestudy are:1-There are many guides related to information community ethicsand Internet professional ethics to which the information specialistscomply with.2-There are regulations and rules which preventinformation crimes and protect the intellectual property rights andprivacy and control information flow and other regulations whichcontrol relations between information specialist and his colleaguesuses ,and the institution.2- Libraries and information are institutional profession and theiremployees do not work freely or in an isolation from rules andregulations which control their behaviors, therefore informationspecialists must comply with these rules and ethics3- Internet is an effective device to promote the performance ofinformation specialist, but , on the other hand internet helped inspreading some electronic crimes such as violating intellectualproperty rights and individuals privacy and scientific robbery. Theinformation specialist must deal with that cautiously.