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This article is a compilation of staff ideas about possible items to weave into the Worthington, Ohio, Public Library's 2010--2012 Strategic Plan. This ``Trend Tracking'' is accomplished in seven policy areas: (1) Early childhood literacy, (2) future role of libraries, (3) sustainability/green initiatives, (4) staff development, (5) fund-raising, (6) programming and outreach, and (7) other. Staff consulted a variety of periodicals, Web sites, and library literature to assess four elements of their suggested trend: (1) application to Worthington Libraries, (2) impact on patrons, (3) impact on staff, and (4) relevant Web site or bibliographic links that served as the source or enrichment of the suggestion. This article provides library professionals with a rare opportunity to observe the internal thinking of a library workgroup other than their own.

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Following the current IFLA Conference motto “Transform Libraries – Transform Societies,” the poster “Transform Libraries – Transform Societies: Go Green” wants to raise awareness for libraries that follow the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Made by LIS students in a project seminar at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, it advertises an invitation to become a member of ENSULIB, one of IFLA’s SIG. The poster’s main focus, however, is the question of what a Green Library is and why sustainability is so important in modern society. It will introduce different concepts that can transform libraries and will also provide examples for a green environment that can be discussed by visitors. These, in addition to the self-evident need for Green Libraries, should engage people in conversation. Various icons and pictures will underline the aforementioned main points and liven up the DIN A0 poster. Speech bubbles will indicate statements with topics for further discussion. Because the poster will only include a brief overview of ENSULIB, the group’s website can be reached via QR-Code to provide more information. Furthermore, ENSULIB’s brand-new book project, to be published in the IFLA Publication Series, will be presented through flyers: textquotedblGoing Green: Implementing Sustainable Strategies in Libraries around the worldtextquotedbl.

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A recent article in School Library Journal describes how libraries support development by starting gardens. As we navigate the busy fall season, take a few minutes to think about how starting a garden can help expand your community outreach, participation, and mission. Here are some main points from the SLJ article about the first steps for creating a garden at your library, as well as the many benefits associated with such a project.

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Triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability is a framework that expands the realm of sustainability beyond the environmental to incorporate economic and social aspects. Let's face it---a library that is doing everything right by the environment but cannot afford to keep the doors open or pay its staff is not exactly sustainable.

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Die Büchereizentrale Niedersachsen ruft 2022 ihre neue Kampagne »Bildung – Nachhaltigkeit – Bibliothek (BiNaBi)« aus, mit der in den kommenden zwei Jahren Öffentliche Bibliotheken in Niedersachsen im Bereich Umweltbildung gefördert werden.

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Die Stadtbücherei Eggenburg hat die "Eggenburger Umwelt- und Energietage" ins Leben gerufen. Seit 2013 organisiert die Bibliothek in Kooperation mit der Stadt eine jährliche Veranstaltungsreihe rund um den Weltumwelttag.

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L’Agenda 2030 est un outil de pilotage pour les états membres de l’ONU. Cet outil est utilisé dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre d’un développement durable dans ces mêmes états et propose donc des objectifs, des cibles et des indicateurs.

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It is now widely understood that societies must rapidly decarbonize to avoid the worst impacts of future climate change. To contribute to this urgent effort, academic libraries should develop an understanding of the carbon footprint resulting from their activities. This article shares the results of an effort at the Penn State University Libraries to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions generated in one year. It will define the elements of a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory, explain the context and process for undertaking this effort at Penn State, share findings, and discuss potential implications for academic libraries.

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Social media is a platform to facilitate libraries and their users. The challenge is to use social media for green companies by giving the value to the consumer in the comparison of products and services The aim of this paper is to review previous study that underpins a seamless integration of library green initiative using social media.In order to achieve this aim, we tackle the literature to incorporate social media and library green initiative. The results can lead to some new evaluation methods in green technology from library perspective. The outcome will offer an enormous opportunity to advance the science of data analytics so that future researchers will have a new understanding on what is needed to use social media as a tool to improve library sustainability. The conduct of this survey will ensure the projects agility in responding to unfolding events, and substantially enhance its ability to engage in and impact on green technology and societies.

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Most libraries offer a wide variety of crafting and DIY programs, whether in person, remotely, or grab and go. As the library sector shifts to sustainable practices, upcycling is a fantastic way to offer crafting programs without contributing to throwaway culture. Unlike recycling, which breaks down materials to be remade into a new product, upcycling maintains the original item but refashions it for a different (and valuable) use. Upcycling is inherently budget-friendly because using donated or thrifted materials costs very little. The library is a natural place to educate and explore upcycling potential with community members.

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Aus Papier oder alten Büchern können nachhaltige Projekte entstehen. Seit zwei Jahren bietet die Stadtbücherei Dornbirn Kreativwerkstätten an. Ziel ist es, möglichst vielfältige Zugänge zu Lernen, Büchern und Bibliotheken zu schaffen.

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Urban Gardening ist mehr als ein Trend; Neben der Nutzung von privaten oder städtischen Flächen für den Anbau von Nahrungsmitteln steht mit der Gründung von Gemeinschaftsgärten auch eine neue Form des gemeinsamen Lernens und Experimentierens im Mittelplpunkt - ein spannender Ansatz für Bibliotheken.

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Abstract (deutsch) Die Master-Thesis untersucht das Potential von Urban Gardening Makerspaces für Öffentliche Bibliotheken. Die Arbeit steht im Kontext der Neuentwicklung bibliothekarischer Dienstleistungen in der digitalen Gesellschaft. Ausgangspunkt der Thesis stellen die aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen zum Do-it-Yourself (DIY), zum Sharing und der Maker-Bewegung dar. Diese Entwicklungen üben großen Einfluss auf die Debatte um den Wandel von Bibliotheken aus und legen die Grundlage, Makerspaces und Community Building als zentrale zukünftige Arbeitsfelder für Öffentliche Bibliothek zu betrachten. Dem wird der Trend zum Urban Gardening gegenübergestellt. Zentral ist die These, dass Urban Gardening keine Abkehr von der digitalen Gesellschaft darstellt, sondern vielmehr eine Ausprägung des DIY und der Maker-Bewegung ist. Diese Sichtweise ermöglicht es, Parallelen zwischen Urban Gardening und Makerspaces abzuleiten, was die Grundlage für die Einbindung von Urban Gardening Makerspaces in eine bibliothekarische Praxis darstellt. Urban Gardening Makerspaces werden zudem mit der Idee der grünen Bibliothek sowie der sustainable library verknüpft, wofür die Thesis eine Begriffserweiterung zur ökologisch und sozial nachhaltigen Bibliotheksarbeit anbietet. Anschließend werden die Potentiale von Urban Gardening und Öffentlicher Bibliotheken im Rahmen aktueller Tendenzen der Stadtentwicklung beleuchtet. Ein abschließender Leitfaden soll Öffentlichen Bibliotheken als Vorlage dienen, eigene Ideen zu entwickeln und Urban Gardening Makerspaces einzurichten. Schlagworte: Urban Gardening, Makerspace, Stadtentwicklung, grüne Bibliothek Abstract (english) In the context of the development of new library services in the digital age, this Master’s thesis investigates the potential of Urban Gardening Makerspaces in public libraries. It is argued that current trends in society like DIY, sharing or the maker movement have huge influence on the discussion of public library services in the digital age. They also provide the groundwork for makerspaces and community building as one of the main parts of future library services. This development is combined with the urban gardening trend. One main aspect of this thesis is the understanding, that urban gardening is an essential part of the digital age and not its counterpart. Urban gardening has lots of characteristics of the DIY and maker movement. Regarding urban gardening and community gardens as makerspaces gives the basis to combine them with library services. Urban gardening makerspaces are embedded in the ideas of the green library and the sustainable library. Therefore, this thesis proposes a definition for ecological and societal sustainable library services. Afterwards the potentials of urban gardening and public libraries and their role in urban development are highlighted. A guideline for public libraries for creating their own urban gardening makerspaces completes this thesis.

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Urban Gardening ist mehr als ein Trend. Öffentliche Bibliotheken sollten sich diesem in der Suche nach einem neuen Selbstverständnis und ihrer Rolle in einer digitalen Gesellschaft nicht verschließen. In der Stadtbibliothek Bad Oldesloe wurde eine ganze Veranstaltungsreihe rund um dieses Thema organisiert und in Form eines Makerspaces mit modernen Formen des gemeinschaftlichen Lernens verknüpft. So konnte sich die Stadtbibliothek als moderner und innovativer Lernort positionieren und neue Initiativen in der Stadt anstoßen. Urban Gardening is more than a trend. Public Libraries should not ignore this in their search for a new understanding and their role in the digital age. The Public Library of Bad Oldesloe created a series of events around that topic and combined it with a makerspace with new forms of learning in communities. By that, the Public Library presented itself as an innovative learning space and helped to engage some initiatives in the city itself.

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Public libraries in Germany are currently under pressure, with many closures recently due to reduced municipal budgets. Public libraries hence need to demonstrate relevance to their communities, sponsors and other accountable bodies to avoid the continuance of this trend. This paper shows how libraries can link into debates in society and politics by adopting the urban gardening trend as well as developing new services around this green movement. Within the debate on public libraries’ transformation, urban gardening and the idea of the green library provide an opportunity to develop new green and sustainable library services. By combining makerspaces and community building with urban gardening and foodsharing, the public library of Bad Oldesloe developed a series of events that turned the library into a modern and creative learning space. At the same time, the library offered its physical space as a community platform for networking, cooperation and creativity.

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In this program, adults will be facilitated through three steps in which they identify what ``urban homesteading'' means to them, are given a modern description of urban homesteading, and learn how to discover and activate their own ``inner urban homesteader.''

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This is a case study about how libraries and librarians participate in a sustainability research project, and use Library and Information technologies and Resources to support the project. The Research Coordination Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (RCN CE3SAR) – is a NSF funded South Texas sustainability project. RCN CE3SAR’s goal is to develop an innovative model for conducting interdisciplinary, region-specific, sustainability research closely tied to the needs of highly-engaged local stakeholders. A project librarian collaborates with Texas Digital Library and Mary and Jeff Bell Library provides services to RCN CE3SAR project from the following aspects. 1. Building an innovative information platform to support the collaboration and outreach for RCN CE3SAR network institutions and members. The platform integrated serials of information technologies such as project web presence, project management system, digital repository, virtual communication system, conference management system, and wiki. 2. Supporting sustainability research by data management, bibliography, and information retrieval services.3. Supporting sustainability education by developing a learning object repository to manage and provide open access to sustainability learning objects produced via the project. 4. Promoting sustainability practices. For example, providing technology support for using WebEx as an online conference tool for RCN CE3SAR meetings so that to reduce gas emissions from transportation; using “Save A Tree” as a slogan to encourage RCN CE3SAR institutions and members to save and recycle papers; and advertising campus sustainability innovations and practices.

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The work of sustainability, regardless of the size of the library, matters now more than ever, and small library workers benefit from the fact that they are big fish swimming in a small pond, making great waves with ripple effects that have impacts locally and globally.

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Connecting with nature and getting time outside is known to benefit both mental and physical health, acting to reduce depression, anxiety, and stress levels. In urban areas, however, there can be limited opportunities for exposure to natural elements such as plants, native animals, and sunshine. For this reason, providing inviting outdoor areas with lush vegetation at libraries and other public institutions can increase community well-being (White et al, 2013). If done well, these nature areas can also make a library space more eco-friendly and improve sustainability. Programs held in open air areas are also less likely to spread contagions among attendees and can extend programming space as Auburn Public Library in Auburn, AL has found. In this article, we'll highlight some of the successes of utilizing outdoor space at Auburn Public Library, an urban library in Auburn, AL, USA.