DISCUSSIONSOF ETHICS AND LIBRARIES FREQUENTLY focus on rights, especially
the right of privacy and its role in supporting resistance to censorship.
This article, using issues of censorship as particular examples, questions
whether a focus on rights leads to a narrow idea of the library profession
and its clients. It suggests that stressing the role of library professionals
as teachers, as experts who instruct others on how to better achieve the
projects that they have in mind, will lead to a richer and more realistic
ethical conversation.