...Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen Purpose Recent debates in library and information science have cast neutrality and social justice as irreconcilable–like oil and water. This paper challenges that view, advocating for balanced librarianship, where diverse values are negotiated through an ongoing...

... that become detrimental to the scholarly process and disadvantage diverse voices in the scholarly conversation. As a viewpoint article, the piece relies on published research and the author's personal experience as an author and a journal editor. The article focuses on the manuscript structure...

... (see also Hjørland, 1997). Wittgenstein (1953/1963) , emphasizing the richness of individuals' perceptions of objects, argued that: Ethics of care Diversity Ontologies Ethical values The quality representation of knowledge is premised on “collective agreement” among various players...

... is to determine whether readers' advisors really ought to treat all such tastes as essentially benign, even when doing so may conflict with core commitments to diversity and social responsibility. Design/methodology/approach This paper utilizes a thought experiment to interrogate our intuitions regarding...

... The purpose of this paper is to investigate what metadata elements for access points currently exist to represent diverse library reading materials, either in libraries or from external sources, as well as what metadata elements for access points are currently not present but are necessary to represent...

... and logically consistent representation of diverse and even confronting viewpoints on the domain knowledge has been widely discussed in the literature in the past decade. The purpose of this paper is to propose a generic model for building an open coherent diversified knowledge organization system (KOS...

... diversity. The set can also be characterised according to the coherence of a network associated to it. Findings This framework allows a methodology to be developed to assess knowledge integration and diffusion. Such methodologies can be useful for a number of science policy issues, including...