Newsletter: Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section, June 2023

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The IFLA ENSULIB Newsletter 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: Message from the Chair -- Meet and greet ENSULIB at WLIC 2023 in the Netherlands! -- IFLA Green Library Award: Follow-ups -- Conference Report: Deepening Library Cooperation and Promoting Sustainable Development in the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area -- Lecture Series „Green Knowledge – Green Libraries for our Blue Planet” -- From Water Tower to Library : Adaptive Reuse Gives Defunct Building New Life -- Networking “Green Librarians”: An Extraordinary Case from Berlin, Germany -- Developing a virtual Green Collection in a University Library Network -- BiblioScan: Document scanning service in the University of Florence Libraries -- Green Library Movements in Pakistan -- Global Health Messengers help spread science from the library -- Available now in German and French: Online game Lilu's Library and new guidebook with best practice examples of sustainability projects in libraries -- Don’t Buy, Just Swap: Consume responsibly for a more sustainable world -- Upcoming Conferences: The Green Shift: An International Conference on Circular Economy and Sustainable Development in Arts and Culture -- International Days Observed by the United Nations.