The social and political values within the library paradigm in the information era

This essay departs from the assumption that a science develops according to a paradigm, in other words, that it develops within a general framework accepted by the scientific community. Therefore, we examine the possibility that, in today's society, the values of social and political actions that are recognized in the declarations of international organizations and national associations, in the theorists' writings of the informative documentary area, and in teaching materials contained in curricula, are values that also form the library paradigm. Based on this assumption, we analyze both, contemporary society as an information society, and the political and social values that appear in documents of different institutions, and in studies of the library sphere. The conclusion is that such values, rather than belonging to the library paradigm, derive from the ontological structure of the human being.

epistemology; axiology; library science; values