"Compiles best practices, case studies, and activities ready for implementation within academic libraries to advance a mission of education for environmental sustainability"--
In 19 essays, librarians and professors from US universities discuss the current status and future direction of the participation of academic libraries in the university sustainability movement to find solutions to environmental, economic, and social issues through teaching, research, and service operations. They describe best practices, case studies, and activities related to the integration of sustainability literacy into the first-year composition curriculum, interior design, the humanities, information literacy sessions, and teaching by doing; building collections supporting sustainability; encouraging sustainable scholarship through a public knowledge project, library publishing services, and a digital archive; and other efforts, including measuring the economic, environmental, and community service impacts of an organization, sustainability for professional development, using libraries as a space to explore environmental sustainability, specific sustainability initiatives, encouraging seed diversity and gardening, and reducing energy demands to access library resources. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
