Kingston Library, Libraries Tasmania ran the first ever Kingborough Repair Café on Sunday 2 April. Staffed by Libraries Tasmania volunteers, and led by the Kingston Library Community Learning Coordinator, this is the first of a regular event to be...
3 ways to be ‘green’ in the Children’s and Youth space
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...
#Chief learnings from ‘green’ focused presentations at ALIA National 2022
Green is the way to go: Sustainability Practises for Your LibraryDr Kasey Garrison, Dr Sabine Wardle and Dr Jane Garner – Charles Sturt University The team, commissioned by ALIA to work on the Greening Libraries Research...
3 ways to get your library on board with the COP26 initiative
While we all know in our hearts and minds, that libraries are and will forever be SO much more than buildings with books, we are, nonetheless and in actual fact, buildings with books. And those buildings, (and also the books, but we’ll look at that...
Two ways to imagine time differently that could influence your work sustainability practices
Image description: an hourglass leaning on a slight angle on a rocky ground. Blue sand is falling, half in the top chamber and half in the bottom chamber. Let’s start with linear timeTime in the English language is usually thought of as a line. We...