Success Stories

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Partner Success Stories

We would love to hear about your Sister Library partnership! Use the “Submit your story or partnership” form below to send us your story or your basic partnership information, and we'll add it to our listing of Partner Success Stories.

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If you prefer email, please include the following information and send it to sister.libraries@gmail.com:

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- Address

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Learn about successful partnerships between Sister Libraries in the U.S.A. and around the world!

Diane Hunt Braybrook, a retired librarian at Helen Morgan School in Sparta, New Jersey, and Bronwyn Smith, a retired librarian from Cobar Shire Library, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia, meet in Hawaii in May 2017. Read more… [anchor/hyperlink]

The three-year partnership between the American Library Association (ALA) and Bibliothek und Information Deutschland (BID) kicked off at the 6th Library Congress in Leipzig, Germany, March 14–17, 2016. Read more: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/09/23/ala-germany-unite/

Downing, the Library Events Coordinator at the Burnside Library in South Australia and Dubois, the Outreach Librarian at the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library in Ohio met on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean in 2010. It didn’t take long to discover that both were librarians, and both had a passion for library programming. After much discussion, they decided it would be a great idea to become sister libraries.

Partnerships & Success Stories Libraries

Amesbury Elementary School, U.S.A. / Ebussamba Primary School, Kenya	Appalachian State University, U.S.A. / Biblioteca Th'uruchapitas, Bolivia
Austin Public Library, U.S.A / Saltillo Public Library, Mexico	Brigham Young University Lee Library, U.S.A. / Ecuador and Guatemala
Arizona Library Association, U.S.A / Japan Library Association, Japan	California Institute of the Arts, U.S.A. / Genocide Studies Center Library, Rwanda
Cobar Shire Library, Australia / Helen Morgan School, New Jersey, U.S.A.	Crandall Public Library, New York, U.S.A. / Saga City Municipal Library, Japan
Crawford County Library System in Grayling, U.S.A. / Shetland Island Libraries, UK	Darlington County Library, U.S.A. / Darlington England Public Library, U.K.
Delaware Township Library, U.S.A. / Siaya Community Library, Kenya	Des Plaines Public Library, U.S.A. / Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico
Highland Park Public Library, U.S.A / Ferrera Public Library, Italy	Liverpool Public Library, U.S.A. / Starfish International Library, Gambia
Mahnomen Public Library, U.S.A. / Biblioteca Comunale Tesero, Italy	Mansfield County Public Library, U.S.A. / Burnside Libraries, Australia
North Shore Country Day School, U.S.A. / Maria Pino Suarez School, Mexico	Queens Borough Public Library, U.S.A. / Shanghai Library, China
Rockwell Elementary School, U.S.A. / Greenfield Elementary School Library, Canada	St. Pete Beach Public Library, U.S.A. / Sandown Library, U.K.
Swarthmore College Library, U.S.A. / University of Ghana, Ghana	Texas A&M University Library, U.S.A. / Instituto Tecnologico Biblioteca, Mexico
Tidewater Community College, U.S.A. / Biblioteca Puerta Abierta Atitlan, Guatemala	Troy University- Dothan, U.S.A. / Kirovohrad State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
Tucson Pima Public Library, U.S.A. / Roscommon County Libraries, Ireland	Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, Mexico / New Mexico State U., U.S.A.
University of Florida, U.S.A. / University of Zambia, Zambia	University of Maryland, U.S.A. / Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico