Libraries of Sanctuary resources
Click on the following images for free downloads of the indepth resource pack jam-packed with case-studies and tips and advice on how you can work towards the Library of Sanctuary award.
The Network – tackling social exclusion website
The Network website includes useful resources relevant to Libraries of Sanctuary. The main part of the website is arranged into topics: on the ‘Migration’ topic landing-page, there is: ‘Migration: “Welcome To Your Library” (and museums, archives, galleries and other cultural and heritage organisations)’, and then specific posts:
- ‘How can the cultural sector support refugees and other new arrivals?’
- ‘How can we find out how many refugees and asylum-seekers there are in our area?’
- Welcome To Your Library evaluation report
- Welcome To Your Library evaluation report – executive summary
- Welcome To Your Library Pilot Project final report
Other library-related resources
- Evaluation of the Libraries: Opportunities for Everyone innovation fund: final report (DCMS, 2018)
- Libraries welcome everyone: six stories of diversity and inclusion from libraries in England (Arts Council England, 2018), which summarised equality and diversity initiatives taken by public libraries in England
- ‘Welcoming Refugees to the UK (and to Libraries)’, CILIP blogpost, 2015
- Sanctuary related booklist – suggestions of books that libraries may consider stocking (and please also suggest further items to add)