Good day! Please excuse cross-postings.

I am sending this along from ARSL's (Association for Rural & Small Libraries) Marketing Committee:


"Are you a public librarian who works directly with refugees in your community? Are you interested in learning more about refugees and how to best serve them through your public library?

The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at University of Illinois invites all librarians and library staff working in public libraries to take a short 10-minute anonymous survey to share your professional experiences with refugees and to ask any questions about better understanding and serving refugees in your community. You can select this link<https://surveys.illinois.edu/sec/9090906> to fill out the survey or copy and paste the following address in your preferred web browser: https://surveys.illinois.edu/sec/9090906. Please feel free to share this with your colleagues as well!

This survey is an effort to better understand how public libraries and refugee resettlement agencies (International Rescue Committee, World Relief, etc.) view and collaborate with each other in order to serve refugees and asylum seekers. The Center will use survey results in our next steps to develop and share resources about serving refugees as a continuation of our recently IMLS-funded project, Project Welcome: Libraries and Community Anchors Planning for Resettlement and Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers. A partnership with the American Library Association, you can learn more about the project and our previous activities on our website<https://publish.illinois.edu/projectwelcome/>.

We hope you will help us continue to work towards supporting the development of public libraries as welcoming and inclusive spaces for refugees in the United States. If you have any questions/comments about the survey and/or project, please contact me, Clara M. Chu, Director of the Mortenson Center.

Thanks for your time and consideration!

Clara M. Chu
Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor
Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, UIUC
1402 W. Gregory Dr., Room 142; Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Center: (217) 333-3085; Office: (217) 300-0918
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Lisa M. Shaw
Maine State Library
Rural & Small Libraries Specialist
145 Harlow St.
Bangor ME 04401
(207) 947-8336 xt 114
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