TY - CHAP
T1 - Green Libraries
T2 - Current Situation in Mexico
AU - Ortega-Martinez, Eugenia A.
AU - Ortega-Martinez, Eugenia A.
AU - Saavedra-Alamillas, César
AU - Martínez-Camacho, Humberto
PY - 2022/10/28
Y1 - 2022/10/28
N2 - Universities and libraries are applying the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in their academic planning, but this study shows the current situation with the green libraries in the country. This study aims to explore how sustainable 30 academic libraries are. Beyond an analysis of library spaces, this study explains the perspective of their librarians, management of resources, and care of the environment as a part of their day-by-day activities. A survey was submitted, and all the participants described their definitions and approach to the topic. As a result, this study found that the perception of sustainability in academic libraries has a significant connotation towards the issue of budgets and space design, not towards water use, recycling, and electricity use, among other aspects. Finally, this study suggests some good practices of sustainability for the academic library.
AB - Universities and libraries are applying the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in their academic planning, but this study shows the current situation with the green libraries in the country. This study aims to explore how sustainable 30 academic libraries are. Beyond an analysis of library spaces, this study explains the perspective of their librarians, management of resources, and care of the environment as a part of their day-by-day activities. A survey was submitted, and all the participants described their definitions and approach to the topic. As a result, this study found that the perception of sustainability in academic libraries has a significant connotation towards the issue of budgets and space design, not towards water use, recycling, and electricity use, among other aspects. Finally, this study suggests some good practices of sustainability for the academic library.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5964-5.ch009
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-6684-5964-5.ch009
DO - 10.4018/978-1-6684-5964-5.ch009
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781668459645
SN - 9781668459652
SP - 130
EP - 141
BT - Advances in Library and Information Science
ER -