Sustainable Libraries
How can library practices, facilities, and funding be more sustainable, carbon-neutral, or "green"? How do we prepare for and respond to climate change? How do libraries protect their users, staff, and collections, especially those most vulnerable to the effects of anthropogenic climate change and natural disaster? How can libraries promote equitable access to accurate information on climate change in the face of disinformation and suppression?
See also our page on Preserving Vulnerable Data and Collections
ALA #Libraries Respond: Helping Libraries after Natural Disasters
ALA: Resilient Communities: Libraries Respond to Climate Change
Energy & The Environment Libguides (Michigan State University)
Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group (IFLA)
Green Libraries LibGuide (University of Illinois)
Greening Your Events: Resources and Support (U.S. Forest Service)
Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene Colloquium May 2017
Libraries and Sustainability, edited by René Tanner, Adrian K. Ho, Monika Antonelli, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich. ALA Editions, 2021.
Libraries Step Up In Times of Crisis (Facebook Group)
Nimble Tents Toolkit: timelines, instructions and sample materials for urgent challenges and crisis response
OCLC Sustainable Development and Libraries (Resources and Webinar Series, 2020-2021)
Pendergrass, Sampson, Walsh, and Alagna. "Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation." The American Archivist (Spring/Summer 2019, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 165-206)
Project ARCC: Archivists Responding to Climate Change
General Resources and Organizations
Climate Change (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (United Nations)
Global Climate Change (NASA)