Laval Hunsucker <amoinsde_at_YAHOO.com> wrote:
" The much bigger problem, I'd say, is *unconscious* bias. There are ways of ( preemptively ) correcting for that ; but, more importantly, also of making it conscious. Conscious bias need not in itself be a bad thing. If it's conscious, it can be allowed for. ... The "laudable goal" for librarians, therefore, is, I'd say, not so much the utopian "attempting to be unbiased", but rather attempting to prevent that disguised ( for themselves *or* for their users ) or unrecognized biases are ever at work."
Agreed.
Daniel
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Daniel CannCasciato
Head of Cataloging
Central Washington University Library
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548
dcc_at_cwu.edu
Received on Wed May 12 2010 - 19:41:14 EDT