Over at the The University of Michigan School of Information’s CIC blog (via Clippings for PEG Access Television), there’s an idea posted about how to revitalize school media centers that have been shut down in “communities that lack the funding.”
“Our goal would not be to replace school media centers or existing community centers. However, our goal would be to bring people back to their school media centers and community centers through the possibilities created by the school media center bus. In other words, we want to get people excitied about existing media/community centers and think about those places in a fundamentally new, exciting way.”
More information on the bus, action, and goals for the project are included in the post. In a side note, the website is a really nice example of how to use Drupal to get groups involved and working together online.
You also might want to look into LAFCO – Los Angeles Filmmakers Collaborative (http://lafco.tv/) for a radical look at a bus converted into an independent media center.