IN DEPTH
#CILIPSGoGreen – planting seeds of inspiration
The UN’s Climate change conference COP26 is due to take place in Glasgow in November, and CILIP in Scotland has put sustainability at the heart of its activities in the run up. #CILIPSGoGreen has been running since the summer, helping to surface and share sustainability success stories from libraries and information services across Scotland.
GRETA Thunberg reminds us, ‘you are never too small to make a difference’, and with a membership of almost 1,200 professionals across Scotland and beyond, every small step taken by a CILIPS member is helping our nation to uphold its environmental responsi- bilities.
With COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference, (
wwww.cop26.org) taking place in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November, it has never been more vital for our profes- sion to play its part in encouraging change, combating misinformation about the stark reality of the climate crisis, and embed- ding sustainable practices into our ways of working. Inspired by that knowledge [and a rousing keynote (
https://tinyurl.com/fwjtp7et) de- livered to our June 2021 Annual Conference by Bridget McKenzie, Founder and Director of Climate Museum UK,] CILIP Scotland has been running a #CILIPSGoGreen (www.
cilips.org.uk/cilips-go-green) campaign: combin- ing events, blogs, interviews and a (literally) growing resource collection to support LIS professionals as we all seek to expand our environmental consciousness.
Our #CILIPSGoGreen activities so far include:
l Sharing an in-depth video interview with Glasgow Seed Library (
https://tinyurl.com/ t6z7rjuu) about the social and environmental impact of their work
l Contributing to the British Library’s National Libraries Now conference video presentation, sharing our views on why libraries are integral to the climate change and sustainability debate
20 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL
Kirsten MacQuarrie (
kirsten.macquarrie@
cilips.org.uk) is Membership Officer, CILIPS.
www.cilips.org.uk/cilips-go-green/
l A video tour of The Nature Library: a pop-up reading space created by artist and writer Christina Riley to connect people with land, sky and sea across Scotland
l Learning from the National Library of Scotland team who designed the Map Images ‘Researching Climate Change’ (
https://tinyurl.com/ yf2peu9e) website space, which includes some vivid visual examples of the impact of human activity on our environment
l A guest blog from Orkney Library and Archive Service about their new electric li- brary vehicle (affectionately known as Baby
October-November 2021
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