Growing Greener Libraries
ALA: Libraries Build Sustainable Communities
Date Added: May 24, 2012
This Web site introduces sustainable community development as a process for making choices about the future, identifies three basic dynamics of community, and suggests activities to guide communities and libraries toward becoming sustainable.
http://www.ala.org/srrt/tfoe/lbsc/librariesbuildsustainablecommunitiesintroduction
Date Added: May 22, 2012
This site contains a growing list of libraries that are constructing green buildings. It also contains a list of resources to help people make their libraries more green and sustainable.
http://www.greenlibraries.org/
Date Added: May 22, 2012
The Green Library blog is devoted to documenting significant activities, events, literature, and projects that focus on " ... increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal" of and by libraries.
http://thegreenlibraryblog.blogspot.com/
Date Added: May 22, 2012
This blog lists ideas, practices, tools, and techniques to help green libraries, librarians, and the communities they serve, possibly saving money or even raising money too.
http://greeningyourlibrary.wordpress.com/
IFLA Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group
Date Added: May 22, 2012
The consideration of the role of humanity in climate change and the notion of sustainable development are core concerns of society, and consequently of libraries.
http://www.ifla.org/en/environmental-sustainability-and-libraries
UIUC LibGuide: Green Libraries
Date Added: June 1, 2012
This University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LibGuide presents resources covering many aspects of sustainable libraries.
http://uiuc.libguides.com/green-libraries
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