The Sustainable Library's Cookbook

This guide offers practical advice, lesson plans, learning guides, projects, and activities in the form of 49 "recipes," to help academic libraries implement sustainability practices in the areas of sustainability thinking and development; teaching, learning, and research services; and community engagement, outreach, and partnerships. Academic librarians from American and Canadian institutions provide recipes for applying sustainability thinking processes to library functions and services, including open educational resources, seed libraries, and reusable supplies and resources; recipes for teaching, learning, and research services like supporting research for local impact, energy conservation, web archiving, teaching undergraduates to critically evaluate information resources and scholarship, teaching sustainable information literacy, and analyzing local environmental data; and recipes for community partnerships and outreach to inform and foster sustainability in the library and beyond, such as mending workshops, a climate change film series, supporting local foods, bike-lending programs, library-garden partnerships, and community day digitization programs. Each recipe includes a description, outcomes, the number of participants, its length, the materials, and preparation, implementation, and other information. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Raymond Pun is the Instruction/Research Librarian at Alder Graduate School of Education. Ray has presented widely at conferences such as ALA, SLA, IFLA WLIC, and the American Historical Association. His work has appeared in many publications, including the Huffington Post, Library Hi Tech, Reference Services Review, and Library Trends. He is also the co-editor of several volumes including Asian American Librarians and Library Services and The First-Year Experience Cookbook. He is a member of the ALA Sustainability Round Table (SustainRT), an ALA Emerging Leader (2014), and a Library Journal Mover & Shaker (2012).

Gary L. Shaffer, PhD, is the Director of Library Arts and Culture for the City of Glendale, California. He also serves as an adjunct professor for the Library and Information Management program at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. He is the former head of that program, as well as a former assistant dean of USC Libraries, where he directed the Center for Library Leadership and Management. A 2006 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, he is the author of Creating the Sustainable Public Library: The Triple Bottom Line Approach.

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) is the higher education association for librarians. Representing more than 11,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals, ACRL develops programs, products and services to help academic and research librarians learn, innovate and lead within the academic community. Founded in 1940, ACRL is committed to advancing learning and transforming scholarship.