Browsing by Author "Breidlid, Jacqueline"

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Newsletter: Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section, June 2022
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-06-30) Sahavirta, Harri; Pun, Priscilla; Hauke, Petra; Tanner, Rene; Ho, Adrian K.; Antonelli, Monika; Aldrich, Rebekkah Smith; Ma, Leo F. H.; Bürki, Reine; Dombai, Szilvia; Rubinacci, Giuseppina; Toril Moreno, Rosario; Breidlid, Jacqueline; Wagner, Janet; Reddacliff, Anne; Mindum, Katalin; Portugal, Katharina; Laštro, Kata; Hudeček, Ondřej; Perwati, Dwi Indah; Young, Michelle L.; Shiraishi, Ikuoko; Pun, Priscilla; Deksne, Kristīne; Filar Williams, Beth; Mocatta, Antonia; Morriello, Rossana
    The second issue reviews ENSULIB’s activities and achievements and provides a platform for presenting interesting stories, events or projects from libraries all over the world, which follow a clear green and sustainable commitment. In this issue, it includes: A hot and active ENSULIB summer ahead! -- Planning and Developing Green and Sustainable Libraries with the IFLA ENSULIB Section -- Book Review: Libraries and Sustainability: Programs and Practices for Community Impact -- Libraries and the UN 2030 Agenda: The Role of Libraries in Promoting Sustainable Development (Croatia) -- Social and Environmental Responsibility: What Skills for Library Professionals? (France) -- Green Library Meeting in Szekszárd (Hungary) -- The Faro Convention and Sustainable Development Goals: Crossed Destinies (Italy) -- Sustainability and the Environment at the XXIII Conference on Information Management (Spain) -- Spotlight on Green Library Education in Germany -- Library trainees as future thinkers! Multi-day workshop on "Green Library" in Berlin -- Australian Libraries: working towards a better more sustainable future -- Lunch Hour @ the Library: New online lecture series launched in Austria -- Green Literacy -- 2021 – The first year of The Sustainability in Libraries Initiative -- Bringing environmental awareness of public libraries to the 2020s in Finland -- Let’s meet online! Idea-Café events organized by the German Green Library Network -- Green Library Concept at the National Library of Republic Indonesia for Sustainable Development -- Libraries and the UN SDGs: IFLA supporting libraries to achieve the SDGs -- Clarkson University Libraries First Academic Library to Complete Sustainable Libraries Certification Program.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Sustainability as a Tool for Political Advocacy in Libraries
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-09) Breidlid, Jacqueline
    The work of libraries is per se sustainable within the meaning of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): by providing open and accessible public spaces to everyone, by lending out books and other media, and by engaging in literacy education – to name just a few – they contribute to environmental, social and economic sustainability. What is sometimes less discussed however, is that the SDGs can also be a great tool for political advocacy. The reason is the following: While the SDGs are a global joint declaration of intent, their implementation takes place at the lower political levels: at European, national/ federal, and local levels. The SDGs are therefore a theme that almost every political person will have stumbled upon at some point during his/her political career. Thus, libraries engaging with the SDGs and making it visible – through their website or social media, but also through exchanges with local politicians – show that they can talk the “language” of politics, that they play a crucial societal role and that they engage in ongoing political debate. In this paper the author will look at examples of how libraries can showcase their societal relevance through the SDGs and how they can approach politicians at every political level. It will also look at political sustainability/ education for sustainable development strategies in Germany at national, federal states (“Länderebene”) and local level and analyse to which extent libraries have been recognised as valuable partners on the political level and where this is still lacking.