Wishes for a peaceful holiday season from the Mortenson Center team. We look forward to continuing working with you in 2024!
Category: Center Statements
Mid Term Post Program Review – December 13, 2023
The 2023 Mortenson Center Associates had a mid-term post program review meeting on Zoom with the Mortenson Center Team. The associates each had a chance to share the PDP (Professional Development Plans) from the program and provided an update on their implementation, including challenges and opportunities they had encountered in implementing the projects. Some of […]
The 33rd Mortenson Center Distinguished Lecture- September 21, 2023
The 33rd Mortenson Center Distinguished Lecture featured Dr. Ricardo L. Punzalan, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, and a scholar of archives and digital curation. His lecture “Reciprocity, Reparative Actions, and Decolonial Work” explored the case of “decolonizing” U.S. Philippine materials to transform our digital work to enact reparative actions […]
Human Library Event- September 16, 2023 Internationalization @ Home!
The Mortenson Center, in collaboration with the New American Welcome Center and the University YMCA hosted a Human Library Event as part of the events featured during 2023 National Welcoming week. The event featured immigrants and international students living in Champaign-Urbana as human books. Each human “book” was available during the event to interact with […]
IFLA 88th World Library and Information Congress (WLIC)
North American Regional Virtual Hub- August 21-25, 2023 The Mortenson Center and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library coordinated and hosted the North American regional virtual hub during WLIC to promote increased inclusion and participation from registered remote delegates (i.e., those not able to travel to Rotterdam). The regional virtual hub sessions aimed to […]
Workshop on Libraries and Advancing the UNSDGs- April1, 2023
The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs and the ALA Student Chapter, Illinois iSchool hosted a hybrid workshop on libraries and advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Facilitators: Clara M Chu, Ph.D., Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Kendra S. Albright, Ph.D., Goodyear Endowed Professor in Knowledge Management […]
2022 – 2023 Holiday Greetings
Happy Holidays from the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs! We value your efforts in connecting communities and sharing their stories. “To be linked to the thread of humanity that connects us all, whatever our country, creed or culture…Now thanks to big advances in digital technology such precious voices live on online and in numerous […]