The purpose of this paper is to introduce the idea of cultural humility, distinguish it from cultural competence and explore how it fits within librarianship.,The authors use an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of humility to understand what cultural humility means and how it differs from cultural competence and other approaches to intercultural communication in libraries.,Despite some reservations with the term itself, the authors find that a practice of cultural humility is more appropriate to front-line interactions in library contexts than cultural competence models.,Libraries looking to address issues in intercultural communication and services to multicultural populations will find an approach that may be better suited to their contexts than prevailing models of cultural competency.,Librarians need to commit to redressing the power imbalances and other structural issues that interfere with library service, for the benefit of the patrons, the library and librarians themselves.,While cultural humility is increasingly being used in librarianship, there has not been a systematic exploration of the concept and how it applies to library contexts.

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图书馆的文化谦卑

本文的目的是介绍文化谦卑的概念，将其与文化能力区分开来，并探讨其在图书馆管理中的适用性。作者通过对谦卑概念的跨学科探索来了解文化谦卑的含义和与文化谦卑的区别文化能力和图书馆跨文化交流的其他方法。尽管对该术语本身有所保留，但作者发现，与文化能力模型相比，文化谦抑的实践更适合于图书馆环境中的一线互动。图书馆希望解决在跨文化交流和为多元文化人群提供服务方面的问题将找到一种比主流文化能力模型更适合其背景的方法，图书馆员需要致力于纠正影响图书馆服务的权力失衡和其他结构性问题，以惠顾赞助人，图书馆和图书馆员本人。虽然在图书馆管理中越来越多地使用文化谦卑，但并未进行系统的探索概念以及它如何应用于库上下文。