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2007
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Jorge Orlando Melo, « Identidad y diversidad: el dilema de las bibliotecas », Signo y Pensamiento, ID : 10670/1.l9lcu7
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"The term identity, which has become a fashionable andoverworked concept in social sciences since the mid1970s, has lost all precise meaning. It replaced the ideaof national characters and has become a term for any setof atributes of a social group. As the original meaningof the term - the permanent and unique attributes ofan individual or social group- is not accepted anymore,it has been redefined, coming to mean just the oppositeof its original meaning: now, all scientist want theterm to mean the changing, variable, contradictorycharacters of a group. Finally, the article states that theuse of the term identity in the mark of library activitiesshould be avoided, as it goes against the accepted goalsof libraries, which must promote cultural diversity andthe contact with all the cultural forms and creationswithin the country and in the world."