ISSN 1475-9462 Diversity Newsletter of the Diversity Council Advocating equality No. 3 March 2002 Editorial: Diversity Council “set to change the world” Ismail Abdullahi: Recruitment & retention John Pateman: Why class matters Sandra Jones: The CLAUDINE Project Naila Durrani: Celebrating Nazim Hikmet Liz Smallwood: Communities developing communities David Owen: What’s new? Haiyan Kang: Chinese Library Subscription Service John Vincent: Creating real diversity Shiraz Durrani: Libraries and globalisation; QLP Plus: This “Equal” Britain IFLA’s Year of Diversity ALA Read, Reflect and Act The way ahead Diversity Newsletter of the Diversity Council Advocating Equality Editor: Shiraz Durrani Merton Civic Centre London Road, Morden Surrey SM4 5DX e-mail: [email protected] Tel. 020 8545 4061 Fax: 020 8545 3237 This issue of Diversity is published with financial assistance from Resource, the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. 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Reprinted May 2002 Diversity No. 3 March 2002 C O N T E N T S Diversity in large print..........................................................................................4 Editorial: The Diversity Council set to “change the world”......................................4 International Women’s' Day – 8 March 2002........................................................8 Diversity Mailing List Philip Pothen writes:............................................................8 Part 1 A Diverse world ...........................................................................................9 Report from Prof. Ismail Abdullahi’s Seminar: Recruitment & Retention.........9 Prof. Ismail Abdullahi leads Leadership Training for Diversity Council...........13 John Pateman: Why Class matters?..................................................................14 Sandra Jones: The CLAUDINE Project .............................................................16 Naila Durrani: Celebrating Nazim Hikmet..........................................................18 Faiz Ahmed Faiz....................................................................................................21 Elizabeth Smallwood: Communities developing communities........................22 David Owen: What’s New?..................................................................................33 Haiyan Kang: Chinese Library Subscription Service........................................35 The History of Chinese People in London..........................................................36 John Vincent: Creating real diversity..................................................................37 Shiraz Durrani: Libraries and globalisation........................................................39 Resource: Building on success; an action plan for public libraries................41 Part 2 Understanding the world...............................................................................44 This “Equal” Britain................................................................................................44 Racism at Work..................................................................................................44 Number of Black people stopped by police rises...........................................44 Equal Pay Campaign Launched in Wales ......................................................44 Northern TUC calls for better deal for women................................................45 Injustice...............................................................................................................46 Sexism in the City attacked by Hewitt .............................................................47 Too many were old, white and male ................................................................47 The way ahead.......................................................................................................48 Equality Standard receives Best Value approval...........................................48 Towards equality and diversity.........................................................................49 Shiraz Durrani: The Quality Leaders Project rolls out ..................................50 A Question of Trust – 2002 Reith Lectures.....................................................51 IFLA’s year of Democracy, Diversity, Delivery ...................................................51 Libraries for the Blind Section...........................................................................51 Multicultural Communities; Guidelines for Library Services..........................52 Round Table for Women's Issues....................................................................53 The role of Public Libraries in lifelong learning ...............................................53 Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons......................................................55 IFLA Position on The World Trade Organization...........................................55 American Library Association and social responsibility.....................................57 Why Diversity? ...................................................................................................57 America's Libraries and the Homeless............................................................57 Social Responsibilities and the American Library Association.....................58 Part 3 Read, reflect and act.....................................................................................60 Diversity, wrath and QLP ..................................................................................60 Africa’s 100 best books of the 20th century.....................................................60 3 Diversity No. 3 March 2002 Voice of Eastern Action Club for Africa...........................................................62 Poda Poda, the AFRAS Magazine ..................................................................62 The three faces of British racism......................................................................62 Gary Younge: Britain is white again.............................................................63 Towards Equality and Diversity........................................................................64 World inequality..................................................................................................65 India's bank of ideas..........................................................................................66 Trade Union Equality Officers Newsletter .......................................................68 “Agenda” explores equality...............................................................................68 Globalisation & knowledge economy...............................................................68 TUC rights leaflets .............................................................................................68 HAIRNET- where age is a positive advantage...............................................69 Zimbabwe International Book Fair 2002.........................................................70 Write for Information for Social Change (ISC)................................................70 John Vincent The Network...................................................................................71 Diversity Council elections............................................................................71 STOP PRESS (19-03-02) – ELECTION RESULTS: Philip Pothen.....................73 Diversity in large print Please contact the Editor at the following address if you would like to receive a large print version of Diversity: Shiraz Durrani Library & Heritage Services Merton Civic Centre, London Road Morden, Surrey SM4 5DX e-mail: [email protected] Tel. 020 8545 4061; Fax: 020 8545 3237 Editorial: The Diversity Council set to “change the world” One can well imagine back in the cold war days of early sixties the whole Diversity Council (DC) ending up in the basement of Nyayo House in Nairobi for daring to talk about “changing the world”. They would have been locked up in the water torture “facility” before being allowed to dry out in desert of the Manyani detention centre to get some sense into their crazy heads. But we are not in the cold war days, nor in Nairobi. We live in more tolerant times in an altogether more open society. When the new MCLIPs and FCLIPs read in the March Library Association Record that “the Diversity Council is to host a ‘Change the World’ seminar”, they will not reach for the telephone numbers of their favourite CIA officer. No, most likely, they will