Wishes for a peaceful holiday season from the Mortenson Center team. We look forward to continuing working with you in 2024!
Blog Posts
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 […]
International visits and Collaborations: Rwanda and Kenya- July 10-21, 2023
The Mortenson Center Team- Prof. Dr. Clara Chu and Dr. Peggy Nzomo had an opportunity to attend and present at the Peace Education Conference held in Kigali, Rwanda. While there, they took the opportunity to visit several libraries in Rwanda and Kenya and discussed potential collaborations with the Mortenson Center. Kenya Visits included: Moi […]
Congratulations to the 2023 Associates
Congratulations to our 2023 Associates! Thank you all for participating and supporting the program as we learn to collaborate, develop meaningful connections and services, and employ new technologies in library spaces. We are hopeful that our Associates as leaders in libraries will pave ways for innovation and advancement. They all have demonstrated the foundational professional […]
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 […]
Congratulations to the 2022 Associates!
It is a pleasure to welcome and introduce the 2022 Mortenson Associates from 8 countries: Ghana, Japan, Kuwait, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, and South Africa. The theme of the 2022 Associates Program, A Professional Development Program for Library Leaders and Innovators, is “Smart and Smarter: Leadership and Innovation in Libraries.” We appreciated the […]