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About Champaign-Urbana
Located in the adjoining cities of Champaign and Urbana (combined population 103,000), approximately
140 miles south of Chicago, the University and its surrounding
communities offer a diverse cultural and recreational environment.
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About Champaign-Urbana
Cities of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois
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About Champaign-Urbana
Typical Midwestern American Farm
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About Champaign-Urbana
Winter
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Illinois Seasons
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About the University of Illinois
Comprehensive, major public university ranked among the best in the world.
Provides undergraduate and graduate education in more than 150 fields of study.
More than 80 centers, laboratories and institutes perform research for government agencies, industry and campus units.
Provides public service to the state and the nation.
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About the University of Illinois
42,000 students, 10,000 faculty, professionals, and staff.
2006 budget: $1.371 billion.
First to provide students with disabilities access to all university services, curricula, and facilities.
Home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Developer of hypermedia browser Mosaic™.
Over 65,000 network connections for students, faculty, and staff. 110 buildings with wireless access by the end of 2006.
Public Computer Terminals in the Undergraduate Library
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Illini Union
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About the University of Illinois
Foellinger Auditorium
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Morrow Plots
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About the University of Illinois Library
The University Library was founded in 1867 with 1,039 volumes.
Recognized as a premier institution, the Library has strengths ranging from the sciences to the humanities.
Largest public university collection in the world, more than 24 million items: 10 million volumes, 13 million print and non-print materials, over 90,000 periodicals and journals.
Paula Kaufman, University Librarian
Nobody ever graduated from a library . . . Nobody ever graduated without one.
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About the University of Illinois Library
40 departmental libraries with one large library for undergraduate students.
Online catalog accessed more than one million times weekly from all over the world.
288 electronic article indexes and abstracts, many full text.
E-Reserve course materials.
Numerous digital projects. Mortenson Center Associates in the Undergraduate Library
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Library belongs to at least 10 library resource sharing networks
Budget-$32.5 million
Over 500 librarians and staff
Public computer terminals-305
Staff computer terminals-600
Member of the International Federation of Library Association (IFLA)
University Library
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About the University of Illinois Library
Grainger Engineering Library
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Grainger Engineering Library
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Grainger Engineering Library
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The Graduate School of Library and Information Science - A Great Resource
The Graduate School of Library and
Information Science (GSLIS) is recognized
as a premier institution, frequently ranked number one
and consistently among the top three U.S. LIS
schools.
Designing Tomorrow’s Information Systems and
Services Today
GSLIS Faculty
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The Graduate School of Library and Information Science - A Great Resource
Mortenson Center Associates at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
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About the Mortenson Vision
Mission:
To strengthen international ties among libraries and librarians
worldwide for the promotion of international education,
understanding, and peace.
Established by two generous gifts from
C. Walter and Gerda B. Mortenson
Mortenson Center for International
Library Programs
More than 700 librarians from 89 countries have already taken advantage of this
center — the only one of its kind in the world.
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Associates’ Home Countries
AlbaniaArgentinaArmeniaAustralia
AzerbaijanBangladesh
BelarusBhutanBolivia
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBotswana
BrazilBulgaria
CambodiaChileChina
ColombiaCosta Rica
CroatiaCuba
Czech RepublicDenmark
KyrgyzstanLaos PDR
LatviaLiberia
LithuaniaMacedonia
MalawiMalaysia
MauritaniaMauritius
MexicoMoldovaMorocco
NetherlandsNew Zealand
NicaraguaNigeria
PakistanPeru
PolandRomania
Russian FederationRwanda
Saudi ArabiaSingaporeSlovakiaSlovenia
South AfricaSouth Korea
SpainSri Lanka
SudanSweden
TajikistanTanzaniaThailandTurkey
TurkmenistanUgandaUkraine
United KingdomUzbekistan
VietnamYugoslaviaZimbabwe
Dominican RepublicEcuador
EgyptEl Salvador
EstoniaEthiopiaFranceGeorgia
GermanyGhanaGreece
GuatemalaHaiti
HondurasHungary
IndiaIndonesia
JapanJordan
KazakhstanKenya
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Associates’ Institutions
Mortenson Center Associates come from all types of libraries and information centers, including:
public and youth libraries school libraries LIS schools national libraries government libraries NGO libraries libraries serving the blind and physically handicapped academic and research libraries medical libraries agricultural libraries bank and other corporate libraries law libraries archives museum libraries
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About Program Funding
University of Illinois
US Government Agencies
Individuals
Foundations
Endowment
Funding for Mortenson Center activities comes from a
variety of sources.
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About the Mortenson Center Programs
The Visitors Program
Seminars, Tours,
Discussions
The Associates Program
A Unique, Individualized,
Nondegree Program
The Partnership
Program
Focusing on the Unique Needs of a
Country or Region
The Lecture Series
Promoting International
Understanding and Intellectual
Freedom
The Mortenson Center provides a variety
of programs designed to meet
many different needs.
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About the Distinguished Lecture Series
Most Recent Lectures
2006 Lecture
“Can International Organizations Deliver the Information Society”
Alex Byrne, president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
2005 Lecture
“Democracy and Libraries in Colombia: From Oral Culture to the World of the Book”
Jorge Orlando Melo Gonzalez, director of the Department of Libraries and Fine Art at the Banco de la República and of the Luis Angel Arango Library in Bogota, Columbia
Promoting International
Understanding
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About the Associates Program
A Unique Individualized,
Nondegree Program
The Associates Program offers an opportunity
for librarians and information specialists to learn first-hand the
workings of U.S. libraries.
Mortenson Associates in front of Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library
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Presentation and Tour: Chicago Tribune
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Associates in the Virtual Reality CAVE
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Presentation and Tour: American Library Association
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Presentation and Tour: Lincoln Public Library in Springfield, Illinois
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Workshops and Seminars
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Conference: Illinois Library Association
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Cultural Activity: American Farm Tour
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Social Activities
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About the Associates Program
Graduation Ceremony
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Seminars, Tours, Discussions
The Mortenson Center welcomes short-term visits (typically one to two weeks) to the University of Illinois from librarians and those engaged in library-related activities internationally.
The Center works with visitors to design a program
that fits their needs.
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The Visitors Program focuses on topics of interest
to each group
Visitors from the Russian Small Towns Group
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IFLA OCLC Fellows Visit the Mortenson Center
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Focusing on the Unique Needs of a Country or Region
The Partnership Program is
designed to assist other countries and regions in
developing self-sustaining centers
for continuing education.
As part of the Partnership Program, the Center trains librarians from the partner
country through the Associates Program and the
Visitors Program.
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About Our Partners
With our partners we
create programs to help librarians
from other countries meet
their professional development
goals.
Association of Information Specialists(AIS)Tbilisi, Georgia Center for Professional Development of Librarians in Central America (CABCE)University of Costa RicaSan Pedro, Costa Rica Luis Angel Arango LibraryBanco de la RepúblicaBogotá, Colombia Foundation Connaissance & Liberté (FOKAL)Open Society InstitutePort-au-Prince, Haiti Illinois State Library (ISL)Springfield, Illinois Japan Association of National University Libraries (JANUL)Tokyo, Japan Japan Association of Private University Libraries (JASPUL)Tokyo, Japan Library & Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)Pretoria, South Africa Training Center “Rudomino School”All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature (VGBIL)Moscow, Russia
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Susan Schnuer, Associate Director [email protected]
Dawn J. Cassady, Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator