DRP: An Information Environment for Diverse Communities The Diversity Resources Page (DRP) is a facility to help people find information and communication resources on diversity issues. During spring 2005 the Project was initiated by Dr. Bharat Mehra, Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, to provide local information about collections and services in Knoxville to meet the needs of diverse under-served populations. The Project is supported by the University of Tennessee via in kind and small one-time funding grants such as the SARIF Summer Graduate Research Assistant. The objectives of the Project are to facilitate centralized and comprehensive access to diversity resources in Knoxville on topics of importance to various traditionally disadvantaged communities. Here you will find web-based and offline materials on international dimensions in education, intercultural resources, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, income, geography, disability, skill, and other variables that shape inequity in our global networked community. Access is facilitated for both novice and expert users through expanded indexing and searching techniques found in the newly created digital library database. In future efforts, users will be able to add content and incorporate specific search facilities and their own taxonomic descriptions to help other users with different levels of needs. This is a potentially fresh utilization of users as creators of information since it will allow for tapping into the knowledge base of users as a way to extend the collection. In the course of project development the system will go through cycles of iterative qualitative and quantitative evaluations and re-designs by a number of user communities, including undergraduate and graduate students as well as community researchers.