What is this blog about?

What is this blog about?


The world we live in nowadays is characterized by a substantial technological development which enables people from all parts of the world somehow to connect, interact, exchange in the professional, personal, and educational levels. In the library and information science world this scenario is also evident and true. Professionals from a variety of fields are being exposed to new ways of thinking, cultures, and believes which require from them an openness to the knew. Globalization and diversity are the words of the moment. As state by Zeiler (2002, p. 135-150):

Defined broadly, globalization is the process of integrating nations and peoples—politically, economically, and culturally—into a larger community. In this broad sense, it is little different from internationalization. Yet globalization is more than this incremental process that over the centuries has brought people and nations closer together as technological innovation dissolved barriers of time and distance, and enhanced flows of information promoted greater awareness and understanding. The focus, as the term suggests, is not on nations but on the entire globe.

And this blog will explore the subject of diversity within the library and information science world. It will focus on major topics such as job market, library collection development, reference service, among others. We will analyze how the “librarian of the future” should behave in the presence of the necessity for embracing and representing multiculturalism in many different aspects related to their profession. Articles on the international job market will also be posted in this blog, along with results of major school assignments completed by the creator of this blog which has relevancy for the theme in question. A list of books will also be provided to blog users in order to promote the importance of diversity, and need for increasing in leadership with a vision, understanding, and love for diversity. Likewise a page with quotations on diversity is available for the delight of blog users.

Please feel free to stop by, read and contribute to this blog often. We appreciate your collaboration and feedback

Zeiler, Thomas W. (2002). Globalization. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2, 135-150. Retrieved from: Gale Virtual Reference Library http://go.gallegroup.com

Quotations

"We need to give each other the space to grow to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, joy, healing, and inclusion." Max de Pree

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together." Malcolm Forbes

"We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration." Josefa Iloilo

“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
― Maya Angelou
“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
― Charles de Gaulle
“The terrible tyranny of the majority.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
― Stephen R. Covey
“He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy
“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”
― Gene Roddenberry
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

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