There seems to be a library success story meme going around. From Information Wants to Be Free, comes a very interesting idea: Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. It’s a wiki that aims to be
a one-stop-shop for great ideas for librarians. (…) If you’ve done something at your library that you consider a success, please write about it in the wiki or provide a link to outside coverage. If you have materials that would be helpful to other librarians, add them to the wiki. And if you know of a librarian or a library that is doing something great, feel free to include information about it or links to it. Basically, if you know of anything that might be useful to other librarians (including useful websites), this is the place to put it. I hope this wiki will be a venue where people can share ideas with one another and where librarians can learn to replicate the successes of other libraries.
And this morning, from the BCLA-IPC listserv, a link to a similar initiative set up by IFLA called «Libraries Succes Stories Database».
Within the framework of its activities for WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) and in order to contribute to the ongoing and long term presence of libraries in the world, IFLA has set up a database that aims to showcase the value of libraries to society as a whole.