Technologies are means to achieve goals which, in themselves, often have nothing technological about them. Not even libraries are ends in themselves, but only tools that allow society to achieve objectives that are summarized in the librarians' codes of ethics. Librarians, therefore, must not fall into the error of technophobia (giving up technologies that could allow them to achieve their goals with greater efficiency and effectiveness) nor into the opposite error of technomania, adopting certain new technologies just because they are fashionable, without first understanding if and how they could be useful for the purposes of libraries. Artificial intelligence, for example, is a technology that will probably be able to help librarians, but for this to happen from a neither technophobic nor technomaniac perspective it would be good, first of all, to distinguish its different forms (weak, strong, intermediate), and then to ensure that, in its various areas of application (automatic indexing and reference, reading recommendations, collection development, professional training, bibliographic research, etc.) it does not risk coming into conflict with some important values of library ethics, such as privacy, neutrality and the right of users both to understand independently and critically the search strategies that are adopted to satisfy their information needs and, possibly, to be able to modify them freely.
Le tecnologie sono mezzi per raggiungere scopi che, di per sé, spesso non hanno niente di tecnologico. Neppure le biblioteche sono dei fini in se stesse, ma solo degli strumenti che permettono alla società di conseguire obbiettivi che vengono riassunti nei codici deontologici dei bibliotecari. I bibliotecari, dunque, non devono cadere né nell’errore della tecnofobia (rinunciando a tecnologie che potrebbero permettere loro di raggiungere i propri obbiettivi con maggiore efficienza ed efficacia) né in quello, opposto, della tecnomania, adottando determinate nuove tecnologie solo perché di moda, senza capire prima se e come esse potrebbero risultare utili rispetto agli scopi delle biblioteche. L’intelligenza artificiale, ad esempio, è una tecnologia che probabilmente potrà aiutare i bibliotecari, ma perché ciò avvenga in una prospettiva né tecnofoba né tecnomane sarebbe bene, prima di tutto, distinguerne le diverse forme (debole, forte, intermedia), e poi vigilare che, nei suoi vari ambiti di applicazione (indicizzazione e reference automatici, consigli di lettura, sviluppo delle raccolte, formazione professionale, ricerca bibliografica, ecc.) essa non rischi di entrare in conflitto con alcuni importanti valori della deontologia bibliotecaria, come ad esempio la privacy, la neutralità e il diritto degli utenti sia di rendersi conto autonomamente e criticamente delle strategie di ricerca che vengono adottate per soddisfare i loro bisogni informativi sia, eventualmente, di poterle liberamente modificare.
Deontologia bibliotecaria e intelligenza artificiale
Riccardo Ridi
2025-01-01
Abstract
Technologies are means to achieve goals which, in themselves, often have nothing technological about them. Not even libraries are ends in themselves, but only tools that allow society to achieve objectives that are summarized in the librarians' codes of ethics. Librarians, therefore, must not fall into the error of technophobia (giving up technologies that could allow them to achieve their goals with greater efficiency and effectiveness) nor into the opposite error of technomania, adopting certain new technologies just because they are fashionable, without first understanding if and how they could be useful for the purposes of libraries. Artificial intelligence, for example, is a technology that will probably be able to help librarians, but for this to happen from a neither technophobic nor technomaniac perspective it would be good, first of all, to distinguish its different forms (weak, strong, intermediate), and then to ensure that, in its various areas of application (automatic indexing and reference, reading recommendations, collection development, professional training, bibliographic research, etc.) it does not risk coming into conflict with some important values of library ethics, such as privacy, neutrality and the right of users both to understand independently and critically the search strategies that are adopted to satisfy their information needs and, possibly, to be able to modify them freely.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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