Resources for Starting a Sustainability Discussion in Your Library
Brown, Lester R. 2008. Plan B 3.0: mobilizing to save civilization. New York: W. W. Norton.
Dresner, Simon. The principles of sustainability. Sterling, VA: Earthscan Publications, 2002.
Hawken, Paul. 2007. Blessed unrest: how the largest movement in the world came into being, and why no one saw it coming. New York: Viking.
McKibben, Bill. 1989. The end of nature. New York: Random House.
Speth, James Gustave. 2008. The bridge at the end of the world: capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Greening Libraries Focus
Antonelli, Monika, and Mark McCullough. 2012. Greening libraries. Los Angeles, CA: Library Juice Press.
Miller, Kathryn. 2010. Public libraries going green. Chicago: American Library Association.
Mulford, Sam McBane, and Ned A. Himmel. 2010. How green is my library? Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.
Library Values Focus
American Library Association. 2002. Intellectual freedom manual. Chicago: American Library Association.
Gorman, Michael. 2000. Our enduring values: librarianship in the 21st century. Chicago: American Library Association.
Shera, Jesse Hauk. 1969. The silent stir of thought: or, what the computer cannot do. Geneseo, NY: The College.
Services to Marginalized Patrons Focus
Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium Diversity Conference, Teresa Y. Neely, and Kuang-Hwei Lee-Smeltzer. 2002. Diversity now: people, collections, and services in academic libraries: selected papers from the Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium Diversity Conference. New York: Haworth Information Press.
Osborne, Robin. 2004. From outreach to equity: innovative models of library policy and practice. Chicago: American Library Association.
Smallwood, Carol, and Kim Becnel. 2013. Library services for multicultural patrons: strategies to encourage library use. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.