Diversity Isn't a Limitation

"Diversity," applied to information flow and management, is not less tricky and loaded a term than when used in the parlance of HR managers, history teachers, or mass transit planners. In the library world, my own concept of the slippery term is that every person, platform, media stream, language, capacity and motivation plays a role in a never-to-be-completed stram of possibilities. The stream, however, always requires refreshing from new tributaries. This week, I have come across two such feeders that require the attention of anyone seeking to walk a balanced beam across the diversity flood. The local TV station, KPIX, continues to upload videos to their Black Panthers archives (local source, originally local folks. And across the Atlantic, The European Library, a brilliant and broad consortium, opened its new website. Diversity=Think Global+Act Local.