(via Dr. Clara Chu–Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor at Mortenson Center, UIUC Library)
Registration is open for the webinar “Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons: International Guidelines (IFLA) and Global Experiences”. It will take place on Tuesday, May 27, from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM CDT. Please see below for more information, including the link to registration.
This webinar commemorates World Refugee Day 2025 (June 20). The session will highlight the recently published IFLA Guidelines for Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons: Refugees, Migrants, Immigrants, Asylum seekers (December 2024) and complemented by presentations on international experiences and/or research on providing library and information services to refugees and other displaced persons, with commentary on how the Guidelines are informing, or may inform, their work.
Speakers:
Despina Gerasimidou, Community Mobilisation and Capacity Building Consultant, IFLA – From Shelves to Shelter: Libraries Making Room for Displaced Communities – IFLA Guidelines
Magdalena Gomulka, Curator, Silesian Library in Katowice, Polish Librarians Association – Ukrainians in Poland: How Did Libraries Help Refugees?
Lisa Hussey, Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons University – School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA) Library: Working with Afghan girls in Rwanda
Ana Ndumu, Assistant Professor, College of Information, University of Maryland College Park – Partnerships and power: Reflections on the ILPI Project amid hardline anti-immigrant policies
Please register here. The webinar is co-organized by the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), the American Library Association (ALA), and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
More information on libraries commemorating World Refugee Day is available here.