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Foundation of Library and Information Science

Notes 14.6 Keywords

Behaviour: A response of an individual or group to an action, environment, person, or stimulus.
Ethics: The discipline dealing with what is good and bad or right and wrong with moral duty
and obligation.
Etiquettes: Etiquette refers to guidelines which control the way a responsible individual should
behave in the society.

Expertise: Basis of credibility of a person who is perceived to be knowledgeable in an area or
topic due to his or her study, training, or experience in the subject matter.
Formal Organization: Rules established by an organization to govern procedures and operations.

Librarianship: A profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and
related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
Profession: Occupation, practice, or vocation requiring mastery of a complex set of knowledge
and skills through formal education and/or practical experience.
Professional Ethics: Professional Ethics is the science of right conduct and character.
Professional: A Professional is one who is engaged in an activity as a means of livelihood or for
a gain or pertaining to or connected with a profession.
Professionalism: Person formally certified by a professional body of belonging to a specific
profession by virtue of having completed a required course of studies and/or practice. And
whose competence can usually be measured against an established set of standards.

Technical Skill: Technical skill is the knowledge and ability required to achieve specific tasks as
well as other duties.

14.7 Review Questions

1. What are the essentials of a professional?

2. Define professionalism.
3. Discuss the important features that constitute professional behaviour.
4. Define ethics.
5. “Professional ethics is considered as an expression of the ethos (i.e. character, spirit, culture,
practice) of an occupation.” Elucidate.
6. Describe the code of professional ethics for librarians.
7. Explain some of the necessary arguments that justify whether librarianship is a profession
or not.
8. Discuss the US Experience of professional ethics in librarianship.
9. Describe the UK Experience of professional ethics in librarianship.
10. Why is it important to keep ethical problems under continuing scrutiny and debate?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. True 2. False
3. True 4. True

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