Resources

Adapative Reuse

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

New Libraries in Old Buildings – Creative Reuse  

Architecture Australia

Art Gallery of NSW Library and Members Lounge

A storied site: Marrickville Library

Institute of Australian Architects

All Hallows School, The Potter Building Adaptive ReUse Project | Fulton Trotter Architects

Advocacy

The Library and Information Association (CILIP)

Green Libraries Manifesto

Architecture

State Library of NSW

People, Places – A guide for planning public library buildings

State Library of NSW and FJC Studio (Formerly Fjmt Studio)

SLNSW Public Libraries: Small Library Project

Architecture Australia

Boronggook Drysdale Library by Antarctica and Architecture Associates

Community library opens in new Geelong suburb

Revisited: State Library of Queensland

Nambucca Heads Library Extension by Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas

Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre by Kosloff Architecture

Munro Development and narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services by Six Degrees Architects and Bates Smart

City of Melbourne opens new library

Croxon Ramsay designs ‘visionary’ regional library

Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub by Croxon Ramsay

Lahznimmo’s Central Coast public library approved

John Wardle Architects completes library at University of Tasmania

Australia’s best libraries designs recognized

New regional library to be topped with green roof

Geelong community library inspired by ‘living water’

Newly completed Green Square Library and Plaza wins global library award

A diorama in a messy city: Green Square Library and Plaza

Junee Library

Australia’s best library designs revealed in 2019 Library Design Awards shortlist

Candlebark School Library

Surry Hills Library and Community Centre

Surry Hills Library and Community Cennre — so how does it work?

Jungle book: Woollahra Library

Grand civic ambitions: Library at the Dock

Refined bones: Bendigo Library Redevelopment

A novel approach: Pamela Coyne Library

Walter Bunning’s National Library of Australia marks golden jubilee

Cultural centre underway in south Perth

gestalten

Temples of Books: Magnificent Libraries Around the World by Marianne Julia Strauss

Thames and Hudson

The Library: A World History by James W.P. Campbell and Will Pryce

ALIA INCITE

September/October 2024 Volume 45 Issue 3

Workability, sustainability & inclusion: A tour through 2024 Library Design Award winners by Liz Bradtke

Awards

Australian Library and Information Association

Australian Design Awards (Biannual)Public, Academic, School, Special and other

Design Gallery

American Library Association and American Insitute of Architects

Library Building Awards (Annual)

American Library Association and International Interior Design Association

Interior Design Awards (Biannual)

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Green Library Award – Best Library/Grand Scale Project and the Best Green Library Project (Annual)

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and Baker & Taylor

Public Library of the Year Award

Institute of Australian Architects

2024 National Architecture Awards Program

All Hallows School, The Potter Building Adaptive ReUse Project | Fulton Trotter Architects

TL Robertson Library Refurbishment | Hames Sharley and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects in Association

Berninneit Cultural and Community Centre | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects

Ravensthorpe Cultural Precinct | Peter Hobbs Architects with Advanced Timber Concepts and Intensive Fields

The Boronggook Drysdale Library | Antarctica Architects and Architecture Associates

Munro Development and narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Six Degrees Architects

Yellamundie at Liverpool Civic Place | fjcstudio

North Melbourne Primary School (Molesworth Street Campus) | ARM Architecture

Wirrng Wirrng | Kerstin Thompson Architects

Hilltops Young High School Library | Hayball

Library & Innovation Centre, Abbotsleigh Junior School | AJC

Forster Civic Precinct – Solaris | TVS Architects

Whitsunday Anglican School STEAM Centre | BSPN Architecture

CHAC Library Refurbishment | Reddog Architects in association with Blueline Architecture

Tiwu Kumangka (Blackwood Library and Community Centre) | DesignInc

John XXIII College | TRCB

2023 National Architecture Awards Program

Inveresk Library, University of Tasmania | Wardle

Art Gallery of NSW Library and Members Lounge | Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects

Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre | Kosloff Architecture

Abbotsleigh Junior School Library | AJC Architects

Haberfield Library and Community Rooms | lahznimmo

Bibliography

American Library Association (ALA) 

SustainRT Zotero Library

German Green Library Network/Netzwerk Gruene Bibliothek

International Green Library Bibliography (in German and English)

Campaigns

The Library and Information Association (CILIP)

Green Libraries Week

Checklists

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

The Green Library Checklists Project

Library Science

How to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): checklist for libraries

Circular Economy

Commonwealth of Australia

Australia’s Circular Economy Framework

The Circular Advantage: Final Report

Design for a circular economy

Climate Change

Australian Library and Information Association

ALIA Board climate change statement

Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material

Wiki: Climate Change Adapation

ANU Press

Chapter 4. Climate change adaptation and resilience as a metapolicy framework by Elnaz Torabi and Stephen Dovers, in Australian Urban Policy: Prospects and Pathways, edited by Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph and Wendy Steele

American Library Association – Sustainable Libraries Initiative

National Climate Action Strategy for Libraries Implementation Guide

Bureau of Meteorology

Climate

State of the Climate 2024

Climate of the Past

Nash, D. J., Adamson, G. C. D., Ashcroft, L., Bauch, M., Camenisch, C., Degroot, D., Gergis, J., Jusopović, A., Labbé, T., Lin, K.-H. E., Nicholson, S. D., Pei, Q., del Rosario Prieto, M., Rack, U., Rojas, F., and White, S (2021). Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: a global state of the art, Climate of the Past, Volume 17, Issue 3, 1273–1314

Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education Project (MECCE)

Digital Library

National Library of Australia

Research guide: Weather and Climate

Powerhouse Museum

Climate Action Plan 2022-2025

Scotland’s Library and Information Association Professionals (CILIPS)

The CILIP Scotland Carbon Neutrality Plan 2022 and various Progress Updates

Data

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Atlas of Living Australia

Designing with Country

Bureau of Meteorology

Indigenous Weather Knowledge

NSW Government Architect

Connecting with Country Framework

State Library of NSW

Indigenous Spaces In Library Spaces

Thames and Hudson Australia

Gunyah Goondie + Wurley:The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia by Paul Memmott

Design

NSW Government Architect

Better Placed

Greener Places 

Design Guide for Heritage

Design Guide for Schools

Design Guide for Health

Biodiversity in Place

Urban Design for Regional NSW

Implementing and Evaluating Good Design

Design Competition Guidelines

Advisory Notes

Designing Libraries (UK)

News

Libraries

Case Studies

Resources

Digital Library

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives and Worldwide Consortium

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Melbourne Museum

Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia

Digital Preservation

Digital Preservation Coalition

Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation

Digital Preservation Coalition and Eira Tansey (Memory Rising)

Environmental Impact and Digital Preservation

Disaster Risk Management

Australian Library and Information Association

ALIA disaster management for libraries: part one – guide

ALIA disaster management for libraries: part two – disaster plan template

ALIA disaster scenarios for staff training sessions

Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material

AICCM Disaster Preparedness Calendar

History Trust of South Australia and ArtLab Australia

Strengthening Disaster Resilience for South Australian community museums: Youtube Playlist

UNESCO Office Bangkok and Regional Bureau for Education in Asia and the Pacific

Building resilience: disaster risk management for documentary heritage and digital archives; training toolkit

Education

Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education Project (MECCE)

Digital Library

Ethics

Australian Library and Information Assoication

ALIA Code of Ethics

ALIA Code of Ethics: Clause 08 Sustainability

Exhibitions

State Library of Queensland

Purpose built

How good design can improve the way we all live

Museum of Sydney

Beauty Rich and Rare

UNSW Library

Living Water: 75 years of water research at UNSW

!Do Something

Funding

State Library of NSW

Public Library Infrastructure Grant

The Library and Information Association (CILIP)

Green Libraries Grants (England & Wales)

Scotland’s Library and Information Professionals (CILIPS)

The Green Libraries Scotland Grant Fund

History

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan

Cambridge University Press

History in flames: the destruction and survival of medieval manuscripts by Robert Bartlett

James Cook University

Expedition to the Great Barrier Reef: The story of a ground-breaking scientific mission to Low Isles, Queensland in 1928-1929, and an overview of its legacies by Trisha Fielding

John Murray

Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden

Melbourne University Press

Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin by Emily O’ Gorman

Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia by Joëlle Gergis

Penguin Books

The Burning Earth – A Material History of the Last 500 Years by Sunil Amrith

The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk

riverrun

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts

Viking

Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us by Patrick Roberts

Joint facilities

Ādisōke, between City of Ottawa/Ottawa Public Library/Library and Archives Canada

Press Release

About Ādisōke

Ottawa Public Library Central Branch

Architecture Australia

Hayball designs ‘precedent setting’ joint-use library for regional NSW town and school

Leadership

ALIA INCITE

March/April 2020 Volume 41 Issue 3/4 – Leadership.

Leadership: Leading a greener library by Katalin Mindum

Low Carbon

ANU Press

Chapter 20. Accelerating low-carbon urban transitions in Australia by Niki Frantzeskaki, Peter Newton, and Fatemeh Shahani, in Australian Urban Policy: Prospects and Pathways, edited by Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph and Wendy Steele

Maps

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Library Map of the World

Nature

National Library of Australia Publishing

Flora: Australia’s most curious plants by Tania McCartney

Museum of Sydney

Beauty Rich and Rare

Open access

James Cook University

Expedition to the Great Barrier Reef: The story of a ground-breaking scientific mission to Low Isles, Queensland in 1928-1929, and an overview of its legacies by Trisha Fielding

Planning

American Library Association – Sustainable Libraries Initiative

National Climate Action Strategy for Libraries Implementation Guide

British Library

Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy 2024-2030

Our new Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy

Libraries and Archives Canada

Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy 2023–2027

Powerhouse Museum

Climate Action Plan 2022-2025

Scotland’s Library and Information Association Professionals (CILIPS)

The CILIP Scotland Carbon Neutrality Plan 2022 and various Progress Updates

Policy

ANU Press

Australian Urban Policy: Prospects and Pathways, edited by Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph and Wendy Steele

American Library Association – Sustainable Libraries Initiative

Policy Resources

Note: Only use as a guide; these have been developed for certification in the US.

Journal of the Institute of Conservation

Garside, P. & Bradford, K (2024). Revising and developing the environmental policy at the British Library. Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 47(1), 22–35

Programs

The Library and Information Association (CILIP)

Initiatives and Case studies from UK Libraries

Green Libraries Week

Powerhouse Museum

100 Climate Conversations

Schools

UNESCO

Green school quality standard: greening every learning environment

Sound

British Library Sound Archive

Rainforests

Weather

At the Water’s Edge

From Dusk until Dawn

Underwater Field Recordings

Standards and Guidelines

Australian Public Libraries Association – Australian Library and Information Association

APLA-ALIA Standards and Guidelines for Australian Libraries

State Library of NSW

People, Places – A guide for planning public library buildings

UNESCO

Green school quality standard: greening every learning environment

Storage

Institute of Australian Architects

Powerhouse Castle Hill | lahznimmo architects

Sustainable Development

Australian Library and Information Association, Australian Libraries and Archives Copyright Coalition, Blue Shield Australia, Council of Australian University Librarians, National and State Libraries Australasia

Sustainable Development Goals: Stretch Targets for Australian Libraries 2020-2030

Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) with the support of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)

Greening libraries report by Jane Garner, Kasey Garrison, Karen Bell, Sarah Redshaw and Sabine Wardle

Greening libraries: a literature review for the Australian Library and Information Association by Jane Garner, Kasey Garrison, Karen Bell, Sarah Redshaw and Sabine Wardle

Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material

Wiki: Sustainable Collections

ANU Press

Chapter 5. The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Australia’s de facto national urban policy? by Alexei Trundle and Brendan Gleeson, in Australian Urban Policy: Prospects and Pathways, edited by Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph and Wendy Steele

American Library Association (ALA)

Sustainability Themed Children’s Book Lists

The American Archivist

Lowe, V.C (2020). Partnering Preservation with Sustainability. The American Archivist. 83(1), 144–164

British Library

Sustainability tour of the British Library How we’re facing the climate crisis

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

IFLA Guidelines for Green and Sustainable Libraries

Library Map of the World

What is a Green Library?  

Going Green: Implementing Sustainable Strategies in Libraries Around the World – Buildings, Management, Programs and Services

Jisc (UK)

Digital sustainability in tertiary education: trends, challenges, and sector insights

Exploring digital carbon footprints

Julie’s Bicycle (UK)

Research

Libraries and Archives Canada

Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy 2023

Public Library Quarterly

Lehmann, S (2023). Reimaging the Library of the Future: From Social Condenser and Community Hub to Regenerative Design. Public Library Quarterly. 43(2), 223–259

University of Tasmania Library

Subject guide: Sustainability Research

United Nations

SDG Book Club – Aged 6 – 12, Resources – How to organize and Reading List Catalogue

Taxonomy

riverrun

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts

Toolkit

Institute of Australian Architects

Embodied Carbon Toolkit

International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)

Our Collections Matter Toolkit

CIMAMInternational Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (Affiliated Organization of ICOM)

Toolkit on Sustainability in the Museum Practice 

UNESCO Office Bangkok and Regional Bureau for Education in Asia and the Pacific

Building resilience: disaster risk management for documentary heritage and digital archives; training toolkit

Tools

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Tools for Green Libraries 

American Library Association (ALA) – Sustainability Round Table  

Sustainable Swag Self-Evaluation Rubric for Vendors

Sustainable Swag Self-Evaluation Rubric for Library Workers

Julie’s Bicycle (UK)

Climate Tools 

Note: Free. Login required to utilize the amazing range of tools offered to measure building footprint, project footprint etc.

Library Science

Calculator – How is your library contributing to sustainable development?

Training

Institute of Australian Architects

Embodied Carbon Curriculum

Informal CPD (Free)