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Sister Libraries

The Sister Libraries program provides a unique opportunity for libraries to build meaningful relationships across cultures, enhancing community service and cultural awareness. It encourages collaboration among academic, public, and special libraries, enabling them to share resources, knowledge, and training. Successful partnerships, such as those between the Tecnológico de Monterrey and the University of Maryland, or Des Plaines Public Library with Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, demonstrate the power of these connections. Explore how to navigate funding, language barriers, and community support to develop invaluable partnerships.

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Sister Libraries

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  1. Sister Libraries Meaghan O’Connor Program Officer, IREX Saturday, April 2, 2011

  2. “Becoming a sister library is an opportunity to build relationships with libraries in other cultures that can help us learn, understand, and better serve our own community.” -Sarah Ann LongALA President1999-2000

  3. Why Sister Libraries? • Community focus • Increase cultural awareness • Create connections across the globe • Explore the heritage of community members • Staff focus • Broaden views of the library profession • Share information, resources, expertise, and training • Share techniques and technologies to help solve problems

  4. Sample Projects

  5. Academic Libraries Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico) & University of Maryland (College Park, MD) planned a joint conference that took place in Monterrey, October 2008 http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/tecprogram.html

  6. Public Libraries Des Plaines Public Library (Des Plaines, IL) and Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin (Guadalajara, Mexico) have exchanged staff, gifted books to each other, and have coordinated children’s programming. http://www.dppl.org/about_dppl/sister_library_projects.shtml

  7. Special Libraries California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA) is supporting the foundation of the library at the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center (Kigali, Rwanda). http://calarts.edu/library/aboutus/sisterlibrary

  8. Considerations • $$ Funding $$ • Language • Library needs & resources • Institutional support • How formal should the partnership be? • Community support • Flexibility

  9. Sister Libraries Wiki http://wikis.ala.org/sisterlibraries/

  10. Other routes to partnership • Sister Cities • US Embassy / American Corners • Demographic information

  11. What’s that URL again? http://wikis.ala.org/sisterlibraries sister.libraries@gmail.com

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