The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs was created in 1991 with a gift from C. Walter and Gerda B. Mortenson to the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

. The Center promotes international peace through library training programs. The Mortenson Center has worked with several grant agencies, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to develop training programs for librarians in developing countries. They have also worked with the Carnegie Corporation and

Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City in the United States, simply known as Mellon Foundation, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, and endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pitt ...

to support education efforts in African libraries. In 17-28 October, 2016 Mortenson Center for International Library Programs organized the "Innovative management methods of libraries" training programs for the librarians in

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...

. The trainings were attended by 100 librarians of public libraries of Armenia, 60 from the regions and communities of Armenia, 40 from the public libraries of

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

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References

*City of Champaign. (2010). Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Awards. http://ci.champaign.il.us/2011/10/06/champaign-urbana-international-humanitarian-awards-2/ Retrieved 2012-04-12. *City of Champaign. (2010). 2011 Organizational Award Recipient. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053200/http://ci.champaign.il.us/cms/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Mortenson-Center-bio-with-picture-for-website.pdf Retrieved 2012-04-12. *Wei, K. et al. (2006). "Not just icing on the cake," ' 'College & Research Libraries News' ', 67(1). http://crln.acrl.org/content/67/1/10.full.pdf+html *(2010). "News from the field," ' 'College & Research Libraries News' ', 71(2). http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/2/62.full *Ford, B. and S. Schnuer. (2006 June). "Joint project aims to revitalize African libraries," ' 'International Leads' ', 20(2). https://web.archive.org/web/20131106075743/http://www.ala.org/irrt/sites/ala.org.irrt/files/content/intlleads/leadsarchive/200606.pdf Retrieved 2012-04-12.

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