GLAM/IFLA Case Studies/Form

Context/Background

Make sure to write content that answers the following questions:

• What opportunity allowed for working with Wikimedia projects? Did it require additional resources, such as funding, volunteer support or a employee at the institution, to get started?
• What experience did your library have before this activity that made this project possible?
• Make sure to describe the kind of library: what type of library? What IFLA sections does this library represent?

Goals

• What did you intend to be the impact for this project?
• What library activities did you think would benefit from this project?
• How did you plan to measure or evaluate that impact?

Implementation/Steps

• What was each step for the project? For each step:
  • Who was involved?
  • What tools did you use?
  • Did you create or refer to documentation? (include both English and non-English documentation)

Outcomes

Some questions that might help you write this section:

• Did you meet your goals?
• Did you collect data help you evaluate whether or not you met your goals?
• Do you have any statistics or evidence of your impact?
• What unmeasurable or hard-to-measure outcomes happened as a result of the project?

Reflection and lessons learned

• What challenges did you anticipate and how did you plan to overcome them? Did your plan work?
• Did any challenges come up that you did not expect? What did you do to respond to that work?
• What would you do differently next time? What advice would you give to someone looking to do a similar project?

Resources/Links/Additional Context

Include links or citations here to:

• Additional resources, including documentation or relevant learning patterns
• Scholarship that might help augment what you learned about the project.