Veterans Day

Community Salute & Veterans History Project

Community Salute is an example of the ways museums and libraries can work as community catalysts.

Community Salute is an initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) with the goal of studying how libraries and museums are responding to the needs of veterans and their families and developing new strategies through community partnerships to provide better services for this important constituency.¹ Community Salute is an example of the ways museums and libraries can work as community catalysts. “Supporting Veterans and Military Families: How to Begin.”²

Veteran’s History Project at the Library of Congress

The Veterans History Project ³of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.⁴

The Project⁵ collects first-hand accounts of U.S. Veterans from the following wars:

• World War, 1914-1918

• World War, 1939-1945

• Cold War

• Korean War, 1950-1953

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975

• Grenada--History--American Invasion, 1983

• Panama--History--American Invasion, 1989

• Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993

• Persian Gulf War, 1991

• United Nations Operation in Somalia

• Haiti--History--American intervention, 1994-1995

• Operation Allied Force, 1999

• Peacekeeping forces--Bosnia and Hercegovina

• Operation Joint Guardian, 1999-

• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

• Afghan War, 2001-

• Iraq War, 2003-2011

1. LeMire, Sarah, and Kristen J. Mulvihill. Serving Those Who Served : Librarian’s Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities . Santa Barbara, California: Libraries Unlimited.

2. Community Salute.

3. Pionke, JJ. “Veteran Views of the Library: A Qualitative Study.” Reference and User Services Quarterly 58, no. 4 (2019).

4. Veterans History Project-Library of Congress.

5. “Participate in the Veterans History Project.” 2012. Library of Congress Magazine 1.