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A PLA 2026 Virtual Conference On-Demand Webinar
Public libraries play a crucial role in supporting refugee populations. The IMLS-funded research team presents findings from survey and focus groups with librarians and refugees to improve understanding of refugee services and promote trauma-informed practices in public libraries. Find out how public libraries in the US provide services for refugees. Learn new ideas to use in your library including those about implementing trauma-informed programming!
Recorded live during the PLA 2026 Virtual Conference, April 1–3, 2026.
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this on-demand webinar, participants will be able to:
- Participants will be able to advocate for the provision of services to refugees in their communities;
- Participants will have the skills to evaluate or assess their current barriers and challenges to serving refugee communities; and
- Participants will learn how to design trauma-informed programming and other related practices for refugees in their library.
Who Should Attend
This on-demand webinar is intended for any public library worker wishing to sample the educational offerings of the PLA 2026 Virtual Conference.
If you were registered for the PLA 2026 Virtual Conference, or were an in-person full-conference registrant who purchased the Virtual Conference add-on, then you already have access to this recording in the online Conference console until July 3, 2026.
Panelists
Dr. June Abbas is Director and a Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies. She graduated with a PhD in information science from the University of North Texas in 1998. She was awarded the 2016 Kilgour Award from OCLC/ALA LITA. Her research interests include youth and the socio-cognitive factors associated with use of information technology, the role of libraries as transformative organizations, and human-centered design and knowledge organization within various contexts.
Dr. Chie Noyori-Corbett is a Professor in the Zarrow Family School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Noyori-Corbett is the founder of OU’s Humanitarian Innovation Research Group. Its mission is to bring about awareness of refugee integration issues in global and local areas. Her central research areas are global social work, forced migration, climate change driven migration, and human rights pedagogy.
Dr. Jiening Ruan is a Professor in the Jennine Rainbolt College of Education at the University of Oklahoma.
Xue Pan is a doctoral student in the School of Library and Information Studies and a graduate library research assistant in the Bizzell Library at the University of Oklahoma.
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Accommodations
This on-demand webinar is closed captioned in English (United States).
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Tech Requirements
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Contact
This webinar is presented by the Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
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