Resources

Ambassadors for Sustainable Development – Making Green Libraries Visible

Against the background of IFLA's involvement in the 2030 Agenda, this paper asks about the visible commitment of librari...

Going Green, Green Greener with True Marketing and Strategic Planning: A Practical Approach with Illustrative Examples

Marketing is a process, a tried-and-true systematic approach for matching services and products to customers’ wants, n...

Advocating Public Libraries by the SDGs

The library world has recognized the importance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the fact ...

Leaving no one Behind: Marketing Sustainable Libraries

We are in what the UN has called the decade of action. This is a decisive decade for our world in which must include eve...

Leading by Example. Initiatives in Austrian Public Libraries to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

As cultural and educational institutions with a broad impact, public libraries contribute to the UN’s 17 Sustainable D...

Calling for an Open Access Biocultural-Knowledge Database Towards Sustained Climate Action

With multiplying extreme and chronic global climate changes, it is vital that librarians and information scientists acti...

Bringing environmental awareness of public libraries to the 2020s -project: Case Libraries Carbon Footprint

Bringing environmental awareness of public libraries to the 2020s –project (2020-2021) was a national research and tra...

When Preservation & Conservation meet Open Science

Observations on Preservation and Conservation in this times of socio-economic-political and pandemic crises, stem from m...

Removing Barriers: Open Science for Climate Change Solutions and Social Justice

Open science, which by necessity involves open access, is a meaningful way to bring research and insights to a global po...

Iconoteca: A Digital Repository by Biblioteca dell’Accademia di architettura

Iconoteca went live on May 26 2020, after two years of study and work to create a digital repository suitable to preserv...

Libraries as Agents of Climate Change Literacy

Climate change literacy can be defined as one’s ability to find, understand, and use information and services to make ...

Meeting Sustainable Goals Through Improved Accessibility: A Call to Action.

The goal of this paper will be to inspire and engage libraries to work on sustainability as according to the UN Agenda 2...

Sustainability as a Tool for Political Advocacy in Libraries

The work of libraries is per se sustainable within the meaning of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): by providing...

Building sustainability and open science in academic libraries through alliances: The case of Macao SAR

The purpose of the alliance is usually to share resources and expertise, drive innovation and cultivate creativity, incr...

Wikidata/Wikibase: A Green Platform Solution for Coworking

Public libraries are a gateway to the citizens’ most disparate information needs. Consequently, contents, methods and ...

Minutes of Business Meeting: Management & Marketing Section, 7 September 2021

Business Meeting Minutes Management & Marketing Section 6 August 2021

Annual Report 2020-2021: Management and Marketing Section

Minutes of business meeting: Management and Marketing Section, 18 February 2021

Items discussed at the meetings include new from Division IV and Governing Board, report from the meeting of the Jury fo...

Action Plan 2020-2021: Management and Marketing Section

The committee’s activities have been focused in two areas: 1) Increase knowledge and improve practices to reflect best...