Resources

The Impact of Library Publishing Through the Lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

As library publishing programmes expand around the world, reports and research pertaining to standards and workflows hav...

Libraries Inspiring Young People toward Sustainable Futures: A Danish Example

There is no doubt that libraries explore new paths and develop. We do that every day – and we must keep doing that. Ne...

PUBLISSO – Publishing open access for achieving the Sustainable Development goals (SDGS)

With its wide-ranging focus on life sciences, ZB MED is promoting "good health and well-being", as stated in SDG 3. At t...

Minutes of Business Meeting: Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section, 4 November 2022

Green Libraries

The United Nations have set 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) that will create a better world, now and in the fut...

Tools for Green Libraries

The goal of this growing Green Libraries Toolbox is to provide resources and stories to help all people working in libr...

Minutes of Meeting: Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section, Business Meeting, 30 August 2022

Minutes of Meeting: Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section, Meeting for Communication Plan, 14 September 2022

The seed library - the sustainable way of sharing and collaborating

The seed library is a physical part of Karlsuhe City Library. On bookshelves seed bags are presented which contain seeds...

Library work in an uncertain time in Hässleholm and Malmö Public Libraries

Our poster will give highlights how our libraries engage, connect and inspire citizens to work with the SDG and promote ...

Travel the World with Inspiring Libraries: Ten Years of EIFL Public Library Innovation Awards

EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) has celebrated 10 years of EIFL Public Library Innovation Awards. The Award ...

How can academic librarians contribute to the development of SDGs: Awareness-raising activities with librarians in Turkey

Why we do? Libraries around the world can offer a wide range of products and services that promote the achievement of ...

Ambassadors for Sustainable Development – Making Green Libraries Visible

Against the background of IFLA's involvement in the 2030 Agenda, this paper asks about the visible commitment of librari...

Going Green, Green Greener with True Marketing and Strategic Planning: A Practical Approach with Illustrative Examples

Marketing is a process, a tried-and-true systematic approach for matching services and products to customers’ wants, n...

Advocating Public Libraries by the SDGs

The library world has recognized the importance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the fact ...

Leaving no one Behind: Marketing Sustainable Libraries

We are in what the UN has called the decade of action. This is a decisive decade for our world in which must include eve...

Leading by Example. Initiatives in Austrian Public Libraries to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

As cultural and educational institutions with a broad impact, public libraries contribute to the UN’s 17 Sustainable D...

Calling for an Open Access Biocultural-Knowledge Database Towards Sustained Climate Action

With multiplying extreme and chronic global climate changes, it is vital that librarians and information scientists acti...

Bringing environmental awareness of public libraries to the 2020s -project: Case Libraries Carbon Footprint

Bringing environmental awareness of public libraries to the 2020s –project (2020-2021) was a national research and tra...

When Preservation & Conservation meet Open Science

Observations on Preservation and Conservation in this times of socio-economic-political and pandemic crises, stem from m...