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Professional Neutrality In Library Science

Professional Neutrality In Library Science. Martin Parker LIS 600 UNC-Greensboro. ALA Code of Ethics.

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Professional Neutrality In Library Science

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  1. Professional Neutrality In Library Science Martin Parker LIS 600 UNC-Greensboro

  2. ALA Code of Ethics “In a political system grounded in an informed citizenry, we are members of a profession explicitly committed to intellectual freedom and the freedom of access to information. We have a special obligation to ensure the free flow of information and ideas to present and future generations. • We provide accurate, unbiased, and courteous responses to all requests. • We distinguish between our personal convictions and professional duties and do not allow our personal beliefs to interfere with fair representation of the aims of our institutions or the provision of access to their information resources.

  3. We The People

  4. Modern Developments In Education

  5. What Did Dewey Say? “The time has at last come when a librarian may, without assumption, speak of his occupation as a profession” “He (Librarians) must teach them (patrons) how they may themselves select their reading wisely” and “a librarian may soon largely shape the reading, and through it the thought, of his whole community.”

  6. What Did Foskett Say? The librarian ought to vanish as an individual person, except in so far as his personality sheds light on the working of the library”; the librarian should have no politics, no religion, no morals”.

  7. Conclusions “Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality” – John F. Kennedy in a speech on June 24, 1963 in Bonn, Germany. “Everything I have said and done in these last years is relativism by intuition. If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and men who claim to be the bearers of an objective, immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than fascistic attitudes and activity” – Benito Mussolini, 1924. "We are out there on the cutting edge of the uncontroversial" -  Martin Amis

  8. Works Cited • American Library Association Council. 1995: Code of Ethics of the American Library Association. • Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression. 2012: IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers. • Dewey, Melvil., “The Profession”: The American Library Journal 1 (September 30, 1876): 5-6. • Asheim, Lester., “Librarians as Professionals”: Winter 1979. Volume 27, Number 3: 232 . • School of Communication and Information. Libraries and Librarians, Then and Now: Rutgers University. • Foskett, D.J., “The Creed of a Librarian: No Politics, No Religion, No Morals. London: Library Association. • Good, Joseph., “The Hottest Place in Hell: The Crisis of Neutrality in Contemporary Librarianship”: Progressive Librarian, Winter 2006/2007. Number 28. pg 25-29.

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