Cura o incuria? Applicare l'etica della cura nelle biblioteche accademiche

The care ethics has been reintroduced during the pandemic with a new emphasis, as a reaction to the globalized world vulnerabilities; it is a perspective that consider the individuals not as the abstract and isolated entities described by the classical liberal theory, but as relational, vulnerable, interdependent beings. The empathy and the awareness of the interdependence that connect the humans and the planet are the bases of the caring ethical mood. The article analyses how the care ethics principles are being embedded (or could be introduced) in the academic library services with a special focus on the space’s organization, the digital artifacts and the face-to-face information services. Finally, we observe that the “care” paradigm integration in the academic library services design open some interesting perspectives both in the LIS field and in the conception of the librarians’ professional competencies.