Welcome to the ALIA Green community in Australia! We are a group aiming to facilitate the networking of librarians who are interested in promoting the principles and practice of sustainability in all Australian libraries. It seeks to support the...
Parts of this article were first published in INCITE, ALIA, Dec 2023. Public Libraries Victoria (PLV) have recently created a Sustainability Portal (www.plv.org.au/sustainability-home/) . This portal is the result of many hours of collaboration...
At a time when our communities are feeling the financial crunch of high interest rates, a rising cost of living, and environmental challenges like floods, Seed Library programs are providing cost-savings and health benefits to Goldfields Libraries...
Saving the planet is not a solitary task. It takes many hands and many voices. Kate Leaver in her book The friendship cure states decisively that friendship is the cure to our modern epidemic of loneliness. We couldn’t agree more so if you’re...
Our libraries and our roles within them might be different but, there are things that draw us together in our love for our libraries. Working in libraries allows us to make order out of chaos, and I’m sure we’re all quite familiar with Neil...
