Cataloguing as the Creation of Access Points and the Rule of Librarian’s Neutrality

Abstract

Impartiality and objectivity, as defined in several codes of ethics, including the Polish one, is an ideal for librarian. First of all, this rule is practiced by assigning access points to information resources organized as units, which is the task of bibliographers and cataloguers. This is a kind of a test, proving to what extent the processed content is understood and how skillfully it is  converted into communications, accessible within the discovery and delivery currently used apparatus. From what we see, information professionals may be experiencing difficulties with the same themes, taxonomies and naming, which are subject to misunderstanding, conflict and concealment in the general public discourse. Some of the prejudices and stereotypes can be identified even in the realm of authority files. A particular duty, neglected until recently, is to provide subject access to works of fiction. It is suggested that librarians may need a better orientation in modern social sciences and the ways in which they interpret and name reality.