Green Library Award shortlist announced
THE shortlists for this year’s IFLA Green Library Award have been released, with 10 libraries making it to the final round of voting. There are two categories in the De Gruyter sponsored award, which recognises the best in sustainability in libraries and library projects. This award is run by ILFA’s Environment, Sustainabilty and Libraries Section and is now in its seventh year. This year’s Green Library Shortlist features
five newly built or refurbished libraries from Bulgaria (Communal BiblioBurgas, Burgas), Colombia (La Leonera Cultural Center Pub- lic Library, Cali), Singapore, (Choa Chu Kang Public Library), Spain (Biblionatura Collserola Library, Barcelona) and the USA (Cambridge Public Library – Valente Branch, Boston, Massachusetts). Each of the libraries has demonstrated a strong commitment to reducing the environmental impact of the building, as well as a focus on ongoing sus- tainability and impact on communities. The five shortlisted libraries for the Green
Library Project Award come from Belgium, Columbia, two from France, and Norway. The Belgian project, in the town of Burgas, saw users being given the chance to adopt
Choa Chu Kang Public Library.
a plant from their local library; while Columbia’s Comuna 1 Cultural Center Public Library in Cali created a “Neigh- bourhood Path”. Paris’ Médiathèque de la Canopée- la fontaine launched a pilot library for sustainable development, and France’s second entry from Médiathèque Mouezh ar gallon in Tourc’h created a shared garden to promote bio-diversity.
The final shortlisted entry is a project called The fish that take root from Norway’s Lier bibliotek.
Winners will be announced at this year’s
IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Satellite Meeting of ENSULIB, Management and Marketing and Conser- vation and Preservation Sections 22-23 July 2022 in Cork, Ireland.
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