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English to Indonesian: Do librarians have a shared set of values? A comparative study of 36 codes of ethics based on Gorman’s Enduring Values General field: Social Sciences
Source text - English Abstract
Thirty-six ethical codes from national professional associations were studied, the aim to test whether librarians have global shared values or if political and cultural contexts have significantly influenced the codes’ content. Gorman’s eight core values of stewardship, service, intellectual freedom, rationalism, literacy and learning, equity of access to recorded knowledge and information, privacy and democracy were used as a benchmark. A quantitative analysis was carried out of which values each code contained. The codes were further qualitatively analysed, to examine how each value was expressed. It was found that on average codes featured five of Gorman’s eight values. The most popular values were: service, privacy, equity of access, stewardship and intellectual freedom. The least popular value was rationalism, across all codes. Some codes omitted certain values because of their specific focus, such as the Native American code. Codes varied in how values were expressed, for example some codes limited principles by law, while some did not. Expression of stewardship and democracy was found to be stronger in countries which have recently experienced conflict or colonialism. The relationship between the profession and the state was another area of variation. Countries in the Asia-Pacific put more emphasis on the power of the State.
Keywords
Ethics, library associations, professional values
Using Gorman’s Our Enduring Values as a benchmark, this paper aims to determine whether librarianship could be said to have an over-arching set of ethical principles that guide practising professionals across the world. Do the values espoused by Gorman represent a universal set of principles that the entire profession of librarianship can adhere to?
What is a profession? Larson (1977: 208) describes the elements of a profession as:
A professional association A cognitive base Institutionalised training Licensing College ‘control’ A code of ethics.
Librarianship is on the cusp of falling into this category but the case it by no means clear cut. On the whole, there
are professional associations; there are over 500 worldwide (Koehler, 2006),
Translation - Indonesian Abstrak
Tiga puluh enam kode etik dari asosiasi profesional nasional dipelajari dengan tujuan untuk menguji apakah pustakawan telah mempunyai nilai bersama secara global atau jika konteks politik dan budaya secara signifikan mempengaruhi konten kode. Delapan nilai inti penata layanan Gorman, layanan, kebebasan intelektual, rasionalisme, literasi dan pembelajaran, kesetaraan akses ke pengetahuan dan informasi yang direkam, privasi dan demokrasi digunakan sebagai patokan. Analisis kuantitatif telah digunakan dimana nilai setiap kode terkandung. Kode itu selanjutnya dianalisis secara kualitatif, untuk memeriksa bagaimana masing-masing nilai dinyatakan. Ditemukan bahwa rata-rata kode menampilkan lima kode Gorman dengan delapan nilai. Nilai-nilai yang paling populer adalah: layanan, privasi, kesetaraan akses, kepengurusan dan kebebasan intelektual. Nilai yang paling tidak popular adalah rasionalisme, di semua kode. Beberapa kode menghilangkan nilai-nilai tertentu karena fokus spesifik mereka, seperti pada kode penduduk asli Amerika. Kode bervariasi dalam bagaimana nilai diekspresikan, misalnya beberapa kode dibatasi prinsip oleh hukum, sementara beberapa kode tidak. Ekspresi kepengurusan dan demokrasi cenderung ditemukan di negara-negara yang baru saja mengalami konflik atau kolonialisme. Hubungan antara profesi dan negara adalah variasi bidang lain. Negara-negara di Asia-Pasifik lebih menekankan pada kekuatan Negara.
Kata Kunci
Etika, asosisasi pustakawan, nilai professional
Menggunakan Gorman's Our Enduring Values sebagai patokan, makalah ini bertujuan untuk menentukan apakah kepustakawanan dapat dikatakan untuk memiliki seperangkat prinsip etika yang membimbing praktisi profesional di seluruh dunia. Apakah nilai-nilai yang dianut oleh Gorman mewakili seperangkat prinsip universal yang dapat dipatuhi oleh seluruh profesi kepustakawanan?
Apa itu profesi?
Larson (1977: 208) menggambarkan unsur-unsur profesi sebagai:
Asosiasi profesional
Basis kognitif
Lembaga pelatihan
Perizinan
Perguruan tinggi ‘kontrol’
Kode etik.
Kepustakawanan berada dalam puncak jatuh di kategori ini tetapi hal itu tidak berarti jelas. Secara keseluruhan, terdapat asosiasi profesional; sebanyak lebih dari 500 di seluruh dunia (Koehler, 2006),
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