academic libraries
assessment tools for, 53, 63, 65, 117, 121, 125
sustainability plans for, 32–33, 127–129
administration, support from, 28–29, 30
Alliance for Taxpayer Access, 88
American Library Association (ALA), 87–88, 105
American Public Health Association, 105–106
assessment tools
for ecology initiatives, 40–43, 45–49, 117–121
for economy initiatives, 53–54, 56–57, 59, 121–123
for equity initiatives, 63–66, 123–125
for initial assessments, 29–31
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 6
Association of Research Libraries (ARL), 87–88
audits, energy, 39–40, 117, 128
automobiles, library owned, 46, 119
B
Bade, David, 79
batteries, disposal of, 47, 120
Bell, Daniel, 74
biking, encouraging, 43–45, 118
biodiversity, 19–20
Blessed Unrest (Hawken), 22
Bloomberg, Michael, 89–90
book blocs, 108
bookmobiles, 46
Bourg, Chris, 93
boycott of Elsevier, 89, 91–92
The Bridge at the End of the World (Speth), 5
Brown, Donald, 101–103
Brown, Lester, 18–19
Brundtland Report, 15–16
budgets
assessment tools for, 53–55, 121–122
corporate power and, 79–80
Buschmann, John, 52
by-pass strategies, 78–79
C
Calhoun Report, 79
carbon emissions
neutralization of, 38–46, 103–108, 128–129
taxes on, 62
carbon footprinting, 39–40
cataloging, 79–80
clean technology, 103–107
Clean Water Act, 71–72
climate change
action on, 103–108
inaction on, 101–103
scientific support for, 18–21
temperature increases and, 21, 103, 105–106, 113
Climate Change Ethics (Brown), 102–103
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, 65, 125
collaboration, 106–107
collections
college libraries. See academic libraries
committees. See sustainability committees
commons, enclosure of, 14, 75–78
communities, relationships with, 28–29, 58–59, 123–124
computers
assessment tools for, 42–43, 48, 118
contracts, with vendors, 14, 54, 57, 66, 80, 126
conversational norms, 100
Conway, Erik M., 100
corporate power
advocacy and activism against, 85–89, 91–94
loss of control to, 79–82, 85–87
Cost of Knowledge document, 91–92
cultural services, 19–20
Culture, Inc. (Schiller), 78
D
Daly, Herman, 18
decarbonizing initiatives, 38–46, 128–129
democracy, as library value, 12–13, 125
denial, of climate change, 5–6, 99–101
development, sustainable, 5, 15–16
digital formats
digital libraries
actualization of, 72–74
enclosure and, 75–82
The Dismantling of the Public Sphere (Buschmann), 52
Dupuis, John, 86
Durley, Gerald, 103
Earth Democracy (Shiva), 76
Earth system, limits of, 17–18, 21
EBSCO, 80
ecological economics, 17–18
ecological footprinting, 39
ecology
decarbonizing efforts and, 38–46, 128–129
recycling practices and, 47–48, 120–121
economy
ecology and, 17–18
ecosystem, of information, 38, 55–58, 75–78
ecosystem services, 19–20
electricity usage, 38–43, 117–118
Elsevier, 7, 52, 85, 89, 91–92
emissions. See carbon emissions
emotional norms, 100–101
employees
committee participation of, 26–27
involvement in sustainability efforts, 33, 41–44, 118–120
enclosure
energy audits, 39–40, 117, 128
energy consumption, 20
Energy Star Rated machines, 42–43, 118
environmental literacy, 32
environmentally friendly products, 49, 121
equality, as library value, 13
equity
intergenerational, 15, 16–17, 61
Estabrook, Leigh, 74
E-Stewards program, 48
F
fair use, protection of, 7, 14, 65, 125, 129
FASTR Act, 88
first sale, right to, 7, 14, 65–66, 125
food prices, 20–21
footprinting process, 39–40
fossil fuels, prices of, 20–21
fresh water, 20–21
Friends of the Library groups, 47, 54, 121
See also budgets
G
Gard, David, 38
Gardiner, Stephen, 101–102
global warming. See climate change
goals and objectives, 30, 32–34, 51–52, 65, 125
government
climate change regulation and, 102–103
patron privacy and, 66–67, 125–126
The Great Transformation (Polyani), 76
greening programs
decarbonizing initiatives, 38–46, 128–129
recycling practices, 47–48, 120–121
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, 92–93
H
Hansen, James, 62
Hardin, Garrett, 14
Harris, Paul, 102
heating and cooling, 41–42, 118
How Green is My Library? (Mulford and Himmel), 42
I
impartiality, as library value, 13
implicatory denial, 100
incandescent bulbs, 41
information, right to. See open access
information ecosystem, 38, 55–58, 75–78
information overload, 79
information revolution, 7–8, 11–12, 72–74
integrated library systems (ILSs), 58, 75, 78
intellectual freedom, 13
intergenerational equity, 15, 16–17, 61
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 4, 21
interlibrary loan, 49, 57–58, 73, 77, 122–123
intragenerational equity, 15, 17, 61
J
Jacobs, Michael, 16–17
James Madison Award, 93
journals
open access and, 56–57, 73–74, 76–77, 91–95, 129
JSTOR, 93–94
K
Kelley, Michael, 90
Keoleian, Gregory, 38
L
labor system, exploitive, 7, 48
LeClerc, Paul, 89
legal issues, in digital environment, 14, 65–66, 125
librarians
disempowerment of, 81–82
practicality of, 112
role of, 6, 12–14, 56, 107–108
as Solutionists, 5–6
librarianship, values of, 11–14, 62, 87, 113, 132
libraries
as community leaders, 28–29, 58–59
as consumers, 58–59
public, 6, 31, 58, 63, 89–90, 117
visions of, 112–114
See also academic libraries; digital libraries
library by-pass strategies, 78–79
Library Journal, 87
license agreements, 57, 65–66, 122, 125
Limits to Growth study, 18–19
literacy
assessment tools for, 63–64, 124
environmental, 32
universal, 13
literal denial, 99–100
local economies, supporting, 53, 58–59, 123
M
mathematicians, activism of, 91–92
Meadows, Donella, 111–112, 113
Merchants of Doubt (Oreskes and Conway), 100
metadata, 79–80
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 19–20
monopoly power. See corporate power
N
National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, 88, 92
natural gas consumption, 20
neutralization, of carbon, 38–46, 103–108, 128–129
New York City libraries, 89–91
Neylon, Tyler, 91
nonviolent action, 88–89, 92–94, 107–108
norms, of denial, 100–101
Notices of the AMS, 91–92
O
ocean acidification, 21
open access
journals and, 56–57, 73–74, 76–77, 91–95, 129
publishers’ limits to, 73–78, 91–94
open source software, 58, 67, 108
Oreskes, Naomi, 100
P
patrons
protecting the rights of, 65–67, 80–81, 125
service to marginalized, 62–63, 124
transportation and, 39–40, 45, 119
The Perfect Moral Storm (Gardiner), 101–102
petroleum consumption, 20, 103
pollution, impact of, 17–21
Polyani, Karl, 76
population growth, 18–21
poverty and the poor, 16, 61–63, 124
power, corporate. See corporate power
prefigurative politics, 94
Presidents’ Climate Commitment, 106–107
price increases
of fossil fuels, 20–21
Primo, 80
printers, 42–43, 47–48, 118, 120
privacy, protection of, 13, 66–67, 125–126
programming, 31, 63, 116–117, 123–124
Progressive Librarians’ Guild, 105
provisioning services, 19–20
public libraries, 6, 31, 58, 63, 89–90, 117
public sphere, defunding of, 7, 52, 78, 85, 89
public transportation, 43–45, 118–119
publishing industry
consolidation of, 7, 52, 56, 75–77
open access policies and, 73–78, 91–94
See also corporate power
R
reactions, to climate crisis, 5–6
reading groups, 26
read-ins, 90
reason, as library value, 13
recycling, 47–48, 71–72, 120–121
Rees, William, 39
regulating services, 19–20
research libraries. See academic libraries
resilience, 53
right of first sale, 7, 14, 65–66, 125
right to information. See open access
right to read, 6, 65–67, 88, 125–126
Romm, Joe, 4
S
Save NYC Libraries campaign, 89–91
Schiller, Herbert, 78
scholarly journals. See journals
scholarship, as library value, 12–14
servers, impact of, 6–7, 12, 38, 81
Sharp, Gene, 88
Shera, Jesse, 72–75
Shiva, Vandana, 76–77
social movements, 21–22, 103, 107–108
Solutionists, librarians as, 5–6
species loss, 19
Speth, James, 5
staff. See employees
Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), 55
statements, strongly worded, 105–106
statistics, on usage, 55
Steady State Economics (Daly), 18
stewardship, as library value, 13–14
strong sustainability, 16–17
supporting services, 19–20
sustainability
interpretations of, 16–18
scientific support for, 18–21
transitioning to, 8, 25–26, 37–38
sustainability assessments. See assessment tools
sustainability committees
assessments with, 29–31, 115–116
creation of, 25–29
sustainability plans and, 32–34, 127–128
sustainability plans
creation of, 31–34, 39, 54, 59, 67, 71–72, 117
open access and, 56–58
sample plan, 127–129
Sustainability Roundtable, 105
sustainable development, 5, 15–16
T
taxes, on carbon, 62
technology
clean technology, 103–107
corporate power and, 57, 72–79
negative impact of, 6–7, 16, 38, 101
temperature
global increases in, 21, 103, 105–106, 113
in library buildings, 41–42, 118
See also climate change
thermostat settings, 42
Transition Town movement, 22, 27, 31, 116
transportation choices, 33, 38–40, 43–46, 118–119, 128–129
Trenberth, Kevin, 4
The Twenty-Ninth Day (Brown), 18–19
U
Uni-Read, 90
United States Attorney’s Office, 93
universal literacy, 13
universities
advocacy by, 106–107
sustainability plans for, 32–33, 127–129
See also academic libraries
Urban Librarians Unite, 89–90
usage statistics, 55
V
values, of librarianship, 11–14, 62, 87, 113, 132
vehicles, library owned, 46, 119
vendors
local alternatives to, 59, 123
negotiating with, 14, 66, 86–87, 104, 107–108, 125–126
virtual libraries, vision of, 73
visions, of the future, 111–114
W
walking, encouraging, 44–45
water
greening practices for, 48–49, 120
scarcity of, 20–21
weak sustainability, 16–17
Wilson, Pauline, 81
World Commission on the Environment and Development (WCED), 15–16
World Council of Churches, 15–16
Z
Zabriskie, Christian, 90