[Michlib-l] ALA Announces Ukraine Library Relief Fund

[Jennifer Dean]

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*ALA Announces Ukraine Library Relief Fund*

The American Library Association (ALA), in collaboration with the Ukrainian
Library Association (ULA), has announced the ALA Ukraine Library Relief Fund
<https://www.ala.org/aboutala/ukraine-library-relief-fund> to gather
donations for the Ukrainian library community as they face the challenges
of war.

In cities and towns throughout Ukraine, dozens of libraries have been
severely damaged or destroyed. Librarians have kept libraries open for as
long as possible and are improvising to bring services to people. Kreminna
City Library offered services a couple of hours a week as street fighting
raged. And in Kharkiv, a library was organized in the metropolitan transit
system where families were taking shelter.

In addition to the destruction and damage of libraries in the war zones,
there are significant challenges serving people displaced by the fighting.
Libraries do not have enough computers for displaced people to use to
communicate with relatives or for job seeking, online learning, and more.

Funds raised will help purchase computers, software, and other resources.
Donations will also help support immediate repair needs such as glazing
windows and repairing roofs damaged by bombing to keep libraries open. ULA
will provide small amounts of support for librarians and library workers
who are in harm's way, wounded, or displaced and need of financial
assistance. ALA will send donations to ULA once a month.

ALA also encourages librarians to work with Friends groups, students, and
others if interested in creating community fund-raising efforts.

"The Ukrainian Library Association expresses our sincere gratitude to the
American Library Association, and American library community for the unity
and support of Ukraine and Ukrainian librarians," said ULA President Oksana
Brui. "We highly appreciate your efforts to raise funds for rebuilding and
reconstruction of Ukrainian libraries and supporting library services
during and after the Russian aggression."

Donations <https://ec.ala.org/donation/IRO-0000-UKRLRF> to the ALA Ukraine
Library Relief Fund
<https://www.ala.org/aboutala/ukraine-library-relief-fund> can be made
directly via credit card. Or by check made out to the *American Library
Association* with notation that it is for *Ukraine*.

Send to:

American Library Association

225 N. Michigan Avenue

Suite 1300

Chicago, IL 60601


For further information, email intl at ala.org


-- 
Jennifer
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Jennifer L. Dean, PhD, MLIS - Director
MLA Board of Directors and ALA Councilor, 2021-2022

Frances Willson Thompson Library
Genesee Historical Collections Center
University of Michigan-Flint
jldean at umich.edu

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