Toward a Practical and Normative Ethics for Librarianship

Just about everything that librarians do as professionals carries ethical implications. Matters of intellectual freedom are most commonly recognized as loci for ethics‐based decision making, but the totality of individual and collective conduct is in need of practical, normative ethical structure. W...

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Published in:The Library quarterly (Chicago) 2006-07, Vol.76 (3), p.251-269
Main Author: Budd, John M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied ethics
Civil Rights
Decision making
Democratic Values
Discourse analysis
Discourse ethics
Ethical codes
Ethics
Exact sciences and technology
Information and communication sciences
Information science. Documentation
Intellectual Freedom
Librarian Attitudes
Librarians
Librarians - Ethics
Librarianship
Libraries
Library Administration
Library and information science
Library and information science. General aspects
Library Science
Library Services
Moral Values
Morality
Normative ethics
Normativity
Professional aspects
Professional ethics
Professional Services
Sciences and techniques of general use
Social ethics
Social Values
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Summary:Just about everything that librarians do as professionals carries ethical implications. Matters of intellectual freedom are most commonly recognized as loci for ethics‐based decision making, but the totality of individual and collective conduct is in need of practical, normative ethical structure. What is argued for here is a framework founded on rights. In order to achieve the goal of rights as foundation, processes of deliberation within librarianship must be established. The most attractive form of deliberation is discourse ethics that recognizes the dialectic nature of this (or any) profession. The result is an ethical state that serves the good of both the profession and communities.
ISSN:0024-2519
1549-652X
DOI:10.1086/511140