{"id":872,"date":"2015-10-09T07:07:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T06:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=872"},"modified":"2015-12-02T02:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T01:36:01","slug":"responding-public-libraries-and-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2015\/10\/09\/responding-public-libraries-and-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding! Public Libraries and Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/bvoe-willkommen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-874\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/bvoe-willkommen-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"bvoe-willkommen\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/bvoe-willkommen-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/bvoe-willkommen.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Libraries throughout the world have a strong history of responding to natural disasters and humanitarian crises providing a welcoming environment, a place of refuge for body and soul, and a source of information.<\/p>\n<p>As we have watched the refugee crisis unfold in Europe we have been flooded with examples of how public libraries have responded in practical and heartfelt ways.<\/p>\n<p>Members of IFLA\u2019s Public Libraries Standing Committee and their colleagues have joined together to collect some of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifla.org\/files\/assets\/public-libraries\/publications\/library_service_to_refugees_0.pdf\">examples and stories.<\/a>\u00a0The resulting document\u00a0is not meant to be exhaustive but is more of a starting point for shared experience and inspiration\u00a0and demonstrates the power of libraries to make a difference in people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share your story we would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries throughout the world have a strong history of responding to natural disasters and humanitarian crises providing a welcoming environment, a place of refuge for body and soul, and a source of information. As we have watched the refugee crisis unfold in Europe we have been flooded with examples of how public libraries have responded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6775,22809],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-europe","tag-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}