Blog
Going Green @ your library: Environmentally Friendly Practices for Libraries and Beyond
Guides
How to Conduct an Environmental Audit in Your Library.
Article from the Going Green: Libraries and Sustainability issue of OLA Quarterly (2007).
IFLA Green Library Checklist
A list of considerations for the planning, construction, and operation of a green library.
Wikiprogress: Sustainable Library Operations
A prescriptive guide to financial and environmentally sustainable library operations.
The Green Library Planner: What Every Librarian Needs to Know Before Starting to Build or Renovate
E-book focusing on how to build sustainable library communities while considering economy, environment, and social equity in the process.
Introductory articles
From Green Libraries to Green Information Literacy
Conference paper introducing the concept of green information literacy and how it can contribute to the green library movement.
Green Library (Wikipedia)
Defines "green library" and discusses green design features, emerging trends in going green, and high-profile green libraries.
Books
Ecology, Economy, Equity: The Path to a Carbon-Neutral Library (2014)
An accessible overview introducing key concepts of sustainability, climate change and how libraries and individuals in libraries can actively play a role in helping build a sustainable library.
IFLA The Green Library (2013)
Contributions and case studies from around the world that demonstrate different aspects of reducing the "ecological footprint" in libraries.
IFLA Going Green: Implementing Sustainable Strategies in Libraries Around the World (2018)
Examines aspects of reducing the ecological footprint in libraries’ workaday operations as well as the social role and responsibility of libraries as leaders in environmental sustainability.
Green Workplace Challenge Toolkit
Sustainability Roundtable Newsletter
The first volume of the newsletter has commenced in December 2019
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SustainRT Blog
ALA members can exchange ideas and opportunities that "move toward a more equitable, healthy and economically viable society" through curriculum development; collections,exhibits,events, advocacy, communication, library buildings and space design.
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IFLA 5th 2020 Green Library Award
The Green Library submission that best communicates the library’s commitment to environmental sustainability including creating ecological awareness and green library initiatives internationally, social responsibility, sustainable buildings, sustainable information resources and programming, conservation of resources and energy.
From ALA News, May 14, 2019
ALA adding sustainability as a core value of librarianship
Resolution for the Adoption of Sustainability as a Core Value in Librarianship 2018-2019
Proposed at ALA Midwinter Meeting, 2019
Report of the ALA Special Task Force on Sustainability 2017-2018. The Executive Summary states: "To be truly sustainable, and organization must embody practices that are threefold: environmentally sound, economically feasible and socially equitable."
Resolution on the Importance of Sustainable Libraries, 2015
Adopted by the Council of the American Library Association, June 28, 2015, in San Francisco, California
ALA Sustainability and Libraries
Resources for the library community to support sustainability through curriculum development, collections, exhibits, events, advocacy, communicatio, library buildings and space design
American Library Association Statement on Global Climate Change and a Call for Support for Libraries and Librarians, 2017
Resolution Adopted by the Council of the American Library Association, June 25, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois
American Library Association Sustainable Roundtable Home
Find networks, social media, resources, and ways to share your expertise.The resources page include links to articles, academic posters, books, libguides, websites, blogs and social groups.It includes a link to the Sustainable Libraries Database form collecting resources and information that fall under the umbrella of sustainable libraries.
SustainRT Blog
ALA members can exchange ideas and opportunities that "move toward a more equitable, healthy and economically viable society" through curriculum development; collections,exhibits,events, advocacy, communication, library buildings and space design.
ALA IRRT International Sustainable Library Development Interest Group
A clearinghouse of sustainable community-based library projects in developing areas of the world.
San Jose State University Library
King Library LEED Certification: a guide focusing on the green design and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. LEED is the most widely used green building rating system in the world.
