young adults which contribute meaningful insights to the Middle East and its culture and component societies. Asian/Pacific American Award - honors and recognizes individual work(s) about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit. Arab American Book Award - The Arab American Book Awards is a literary program produced by the Arab American National Museum that honors books written by and about Arab Americans to garner awareness of Arab American scholarship through educational outreach. References Further reading Accardi, M. (2017). The Feminist Reference Desk. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press. Berman, S. (2001). A long struggle to force libraries to serve the poor. Street Spirit, 12-13. Retrieved from http://www.sanfordberman.org/biblinks/poor.pdf Edwards, J., Edwards, S., & United Nations. (2010). Beyond Article 19: Libraries and social and cultural rights. Duluth, Minn: Library Juice Press. Human Rights Indicators: A guide to measurement and implementation. (2012) United Nations Office of the High Commissioner. Retrieved from http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Human_rights_indicators_en.pdf Gorham, U., Taylor, N. G., & Jaeger, P. T. (2016). Perspectives on Libraries As Institutions of Human Rights and Social Justice. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Harger, Elaine. (2016). Which Side Are You On?: Seven Social Responsibility Debates in American Librarianship, 1990–2015. Jaeger, Paul T. and Sarin, Lindsay C. (2016) "All Librarianship is Political: Educate Accordingly," The Political Librarian: Vol. 2 : Iss. 1, Article 8. Jaeger, P. T., Taylor, N.G., & Gorham, U. (2015) Libraries, human rights, and social justice: Enabling access and promoting inclusion. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Lew, S. & Yousef, B. (2017). Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press. McCook, K. de la Peña. Librarians as advocates for the human rights of immigrants. Progressive Librarian, 29, 51-54. Retrieved from http://progressivelibrariansguild.org/PL_Jnl/pdf/PL29_summer2007.pdf McCook, K. de la Peña and Phenix, K. (2011). The future of public libraries in the twenty-first century: Human rights and human capabilities. In Introduction to public librarianship, 339–360 & 464–467. New York: Neal Schuman. McCook, K. de la Peña & Phenix, K. (2008). Human rights, democracy, and librarians. In K. Haycock & B. E. Sheldon (Eds.)., The portable MLIS: Insights from the experts. Westport, CN: Libraries Unlimited. Maret, S. (March 9, 2018) Human Rights as a foundation for practice. IFLA blog. Retrieved from https://blogs.ifla.org/faife/2018/03/09/human-rights-as-a-foundation-for-practice-by-susan-maret-ph-d/ Mathiesen, K. (2013). The human right to a public library. Journal of Information Ethics, 22(1), 60-79. Paper proposes that governments have an obligation to create and fund public libraries,