50 Ways the Library is Sustainable

The Library Sustainability Committee (LSC) put together this list of ways in which we have been sustainable over the years.

50 Leading the Way: Libraries and Sustainability - Peak Environment

Your local library may not be the first thing you think of when you consider sustainable practices in your community, but sustainability is ...

100 Ways to Make Your Library a Little Greener

Please find below the First Three (3) listed in each category · Start an organic garden: Grow a garden to spread awareness on sustainability and provide a ...

3 Ways Libraries Can Contribute to a Healthier Planet - collectionHQ

Libraries can also contribute significantly to sustainability efforts through how they choose to deal with their unwanted books. The Sustainable ...

How Libraries can be Leading Examples of Sustainable Design

Sustainability, green building, and environmental awareness are common elements of contemporary library design. When considering updating your space, ...

Sustainability in Libraries: A Call to Action

climate change in targeted and meaningful ways. Facing ... UC San Diego's Library Sustainability Committee created a list of 50 sustainability actions they.

Enduring, Disrupting, and Thriving | American Libraries Magazine

To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—and recognize the American Library Association adding sustainability as a core value—American ...

SUSTAINABLE LIBRARIES INITIATIVE REPORT 2021

The building footprint increased by 50%, yet overall electricity use declined ... Find new ways to bring library services out to the Longwood community. Final ...

Step Up Your Library's Green Programming

The popularity of sustainability in libraries has increased in recent years, spurred in part by the climate crisis. In 2019, ALA Council adopted ...

50 Reasons to Love the Library | The New York Society Library

The NYSL houses most of its impressive collection of books in open stacks that you may browse to your heart's content.

Library Preservation and Sustainability Challenges | 365 McIlroy

Building temperature between 65-70°F, relative humidity < 50%, How much energy needed to keep building at correct levels 24/7/365? Is energy ...

The case for public libraries: Contributing to a sustainable future

The reduce-reuse-recycle maxim is embedded within the library system. Library books, and other resources available for borrowing, “are multiple ...

Sustainability and Academic Libraries

How can academic libraries help with their institution's commitment to sustainability ... To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—and ...

Librarian Brings Greenhouse, Sustainable Practices to School

... library and how we're doing as far as environmental sustainability. ... When 50 Librarians Biked Across France | Reasons to Love Libraries.

Libraries and the Sustainable Development Goals: a storytelling ...

As illustrated in IFLA's booklet and handout “Access and Opportunity for All: How. Libraries contribute to the United Nations 2030 Agenda” and in the “ ...

Want sustainable development examples? Check out your public ...

ALA went on to list 50 years of ... Kayla also commented on how library sustainability initiatives typically focus on environmentalism.

The Library as a Campus Sustainability Hub

Libraries with a future: how are academic library usage and green demands changing building designs?. College & Research Libraries, 71(4), 348- ...

"Libraries Model Sustainability": The Results of an OCLC Survey on ...

From November 2020 to January 2021, OCLC, a global library cooperative organization, conducted an online survey of library staff worldwide to identify how ...

50 Tips To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint - GlobalGiving

Join a library. You can borrow books, DVDs, and CDs at your local library and reduce your carbon footprint by not purchasing new copies. 45.

How green is my library? - IFLA

She pointed to three main aspects: Libraries provide professional information on sustainability, train students and other people alike; Inside ...