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Fwd: Free Online Course - Improving Library Partnerships with Immigrants

  • 1.  Fwd: Free Online Course - Improving Library Partnerships with Immigrants

    Posted Nov 21, 2024 11:11 AM
    FYI!!!!

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    From: Ana Ndumu <andumu@umd.edu>
    Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 11:11 AM
    Subject: [REFORMANET] Fwd: Free Online Course - Improving Library Partnerships with Immigrants
    To: linaproject (SHARED) <linaproject@umd.edu>


    Hi,
    Our team is finally debuting a professional development opportunity for libraries to strengthen relationships with immigrant neighbors:

    ENROLL NOW in the FREE Improving Library Partnerships with Immigrants self-paced, online course for library workers. The course is limited to the first 50  registrants . Registration ends December 27th, and the course begins on January 6, 2024. Registrants are required to attend a half-hour online orientation session (several times available). Details to follow.

    Learn more at our information session on Monday, December 2 at 2 p.m. EST/ 11am PST. A recording of this session will be available on the LINA Project website by Tuesday,  December 3rd. 

    ABOUT THE COURSE:
    Based on more than a year of data collection and co-design sessions with librarians across the country,  the Improving Library Partnerships with Immigrants course is designed for reflective, self-paced learning. Course modules cover traditional library services for immigrants, the basics of the U.S. immigration system, immigrant acculturation, as well as challenges like compassion fatigue, anti-immigrant sentiment,  and backlash against Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) efforts.  Students  will better understand the complex information environment faced by immigrants, and be better prepared to create transformative engagement with communities. Those who complete the course activities will receive a certificate and digital badge. CEUs are not offered. There will be a waitlist. Learn more at the Libraries, Integration and New Americans Project website. Questions or comments? Contact us at linaproject@umd.edu

    And here is our LINA Project's November Policy Digest for Info Professionals to get a glimpse of immigration laws and issues prior to the election. To stay abreast, please consider joining our Librar y Workers for Immigrants and Refugees by emailing linaproject@umd.edu.

    Finally, below are two opportunities to understand the Trump administration's immigration tactics:
    • We Are All America hosted a wonderfully informative webinar on anticipated Trump administration immigration policy changes:
    • Happening next week -- Community Defender Training: What you Can do Now to Be Prepared
      • Join the National Immigration Project for a free webinar for community defenders, advocates, and impacted community members to go over the basics of what you can do now to be prepared. We'll go over what we expect in the first days of the Trump administration; a primer on your Fourth Amendment rights; and ways for families to prepare in case of an arrest by ICE. Our two-hour program is meant to address your most burning questions and to remind you of the protections you already have. As policies change, we will continue to provide community defenders with the information and trainings they need to fight back and to keep their people ready to face whatever comes.
      • Who should attend: Organizers, impacted community members, and other community defenders who are not lawyers.  
      • When: Monday, December 2, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Eastern
      • Register Here 

    Thanks,
    Ana


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    Dr. Ana Ndumu, Assistant Professor
    College of Information
    University of Maryland College Park

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    Have a wonderful day and week. Stay safe and well.

    Take care, 
    Twanna 

    Twanna Hodge, MLIS (she, her, hers)
    PhD Student | Information Studies
    University of Maryland, College Park
    2013 Spectrum Scholar  
    2022 Spectrum Doctoral Fellow