Group description ALIA Green is a Special Interest Group of ALIA. We are a group dedicated to facilitating networking among librarians interested in promoting the principles and practice of sustainability in all Australian libraries. We strive to...
Be Prepared. Be Resilient. International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction - Are you Ready 2024, United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction, 2024 As we close out International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) and look ahead to Australia’s summer...
Those who attended the ALIA Greening Libraries Conference in November 2023 will recall Dr. Jane Garner speaking about green library practice and reminding us that if we are working with the same tools and trying to achieve the same outcomes as each...
Heard of nose-to-tail eating? This involves utilising the entire animal for increased sustainability in agriculture. But how about prologue-to-epilogue, foreword-to-afterword, or even preface to appendix for book usage? Libraries have always...
1. Create a garden wall In 2020 Melbourne Girls’ College library saw the outside brought inside with an incredible green garden wall. A survey of students in previous years showed that they really valued the plant life already in the library . The...