Virginia Library Association

The Virginia Library Association, in conjunction with Liberty’s Promise, a nonprofit organization that helps low-income immigrant youth learn about and feel at home in America, will work to produce a strategy for engaging immigrant youth in rural communities through exposure to libraries and library careers. This project will target five rural communities with growing legal immigrant populations in states with persistent rural poverty. This strategy will encourage an increased use of the local library in general (and specifically by minority and legal immigrant populations) and a strengthening of the public library’s place as a focal point for community participation and acculturation.