Imagining the application of beneficence requires exploration of some hard truths in our profession and industry…How might we harness beneficence as a foundational element of our practice, even while we are bombarded with increasing contempt for empathy and compassion?
I’ve written a short article sharing my nascent ideas on the principle of Beneficence and how it can be applied as a core practice within librarianship, and it’s been published with Information Matters, a “digital-only communication translational forum for information science” supported by the Association for Information Science & Technology.