Internationalization @ Home! The Mortenson Center, in collaboration with the New American Welcome Center, and Illinois International- Global Relations will have a Human Library Event as part of the events featured during 2025 National Welcoming week. The event will feature immigrants and international students living in Champaign-Urbana as human books. Each human “book” will be […]
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35th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
The 35th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture will feature Amanda Rubin, documentary filmmaker and journalist. Her lecture focuses on The Third Reich of Dreams, a long-overlooked classic book about Charlotte Beradt’s incredible untold story and legacy of courage as a woman, journalist, and refugee. The lecture will focus on the power of the irrepressible imagination […]
Congratulations 2025 Mortenson Center Graduates!
Congratulations to the 2025 Mortenson Center Graduates! The Mortenson Center celebrates the remarkable achievements of our 2025 Mortenson Center Associates. Their dedication, hard work, and passion for their libraries and the library and information science field have been truly inspiring. As they move forward in their careers, we are confident that they will continue to […]
World Refugee Day Webinar
The Mortenson Centre in collaboration with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the American Library Association (ALA)’s International Relations Committee (IRC) and the Services to Refugees, Immigrants, and Displaced Persons (SRIDP) Sub-Committee ) organized a webinar commemorating World Refugee Day 2025 (June 20). The webinar was held on May 27, 2025, and highlighted […]
34th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture- September 19 3:30pm
34th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture | 19 Sept 2024 [row] [column number=”12″] [pane color=”blue”] “Reading as Belonging: Implications for Library and Information Practice,” by Nadia Caidi, Professor and Director of International Student Experience, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto [endpane] [pane] Thursday, 19 September 2024 | 3:30-5:00 pm CT Lecture :: 5:00-5:45 pm CT Reception […]
Meet Your Neighbors: A Human Library Event- September 14, 2024
Internationalization @ Home! The Mortenson Center, in collaboration with the New American Welcome Center, The Urbana Free Library and Illinois International- Global Relations will have a Human Library Event as part of the events featured during 2024 National Welcoming week. The event will feature immigrants and international students living in Champaign-Urbana as human books. Each […]
SILL Training Workshop offered by Bibliotheca Alexandrina at AlMaadi Public Library, Cairo, Egypt
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt provided a second SILL (Strengthening Innovative Library Leaders) workshop on August 21-22 at AlMaadi Public Library, Cairo, Egypt. The training was offered in person, and in both Arabic and English. Thank you Samia Abouhany, Sara Elgabalawy and Heba Eldeek for facilitating the workshop.
Congratulations 2024 Mortenson Center Graduates!
Congratulations to the 2024 Mortenson Center Graduates! The Mortenson Center celebrates the remarkable achievements of our 2024 Mortenson Center Associates. Their dedication, hard work, and passion for their libraries and the library and information science field have been truly inspiring. As they move forward in their careers, we are confident that they will continue […]
2024 SCECSAL Conference, Mombasa, Kenya
Our director Prof. Clara Chu gave the Keynote address at the SCECSAL ( Standing Conference of Eastern, Central & Southern African Library & Information Associations) conference on April 22, 2024. Her keynote was titled: “Our Libraries and Our Communities in the Digital Era: Re-imagining Services with Intention.” The conference was hosted by the Kenya […]