As lições de Sócrates e o novo código de ética da Biblioteconomia

Abstract

The present work addresses the need for the perception of the librarian as a subject who needs to have ethical principles in his practice to grow as human and professional being to improve the quality of his work and improve his interpersonal relationship. Thus, it is considered that the new Code of Ethics and Deontology of the Librarian (2018) presents norms that guide the conduct their activities and the Lessons of Socrates as important principles for life as instruments to promote their social well-being, since, this professional has a social and criative role in the information society by offering free and quality products and services to its users. The present work aims to show the relations between the Lessons of Socrates and the new Code of Ethics and Deontology of Librarian (2018), research fundamentals on Sócrates’ Lessons, identify its guiding norms and connect them to the Lessons of Socrates. The present work presents as theoretical fundation virtues of Comte-Sponville (1999); the librarian virtues according to Freire et al. (2015); Platão work (2003) about the knowledge; Targino (2010) about Ranganathan; Stumpf (2019) e Rasche (2005) about the new Code of Ethics and Deontology of the Librarian (2018); Krogh, Ichijo e Nonaka (2001) about solicitude; Rios (2010) meaning of terms, among others. The work presents bibliographic research carried out based on thematic keys of search and qualitative approach because it is concerned with the meaning and intentionality of the texts. As a result, we observed that there is correlation between the articles mentioned of the new Code of Ethics and Deontology of Librarian (2018) and the Lessons of Socrates. We believe that working ethically should be more commented in the information units.