IN DEPTH
We are CILIP – Supporting sustainable choices
At the start of the year, CILIP launched its latest five-year strategy and Action Plan – We Are CILIP. That plan looks at how the profession is likely to develop over the next five years, identifying what skills will be needed to meet challenges and make the most of opportunities. Rob Green looks at how Sustainability is shaping CILIP’s future.
WE Are CILIP focuses on four key, overarching contexts – Leadership, Digital Transformation, Social Justice and Equity, and Sustainability. These are not exclusive to the information, knowledge and library professions, and their impact will be felt across all communities.
When CILIP’s current five-year strategy has run its course, it will be 2027. That is just three years away from a key date in the journey to Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. According to the UN’s Net Zero Coalition’s calculations, the world must have reduced emissions by 45 per cent in 2030 if targets are to be met. Those targets are ambitious and the scale of climate change crisis can seem daunting, but libraries are well placed to become part of the solution. CILIP’s action plan is one strand of that, and will help to pull together action being taken across the community. There are number of initiatives that CILIP is collaborating on, including the recently launched Green Libraries Partnership, and the Green Libraries Manifesto, which will be launch at this year’s CILIP Conference and Expo, taking place in Liverpool on 7 and 8 July (
www.cilipconfernce.org.uk).
Working together The Green Libraries Partnership sees CILIP working with Arts Council England, the British Library, Julie’s Bicycle and Libraries Con- nected, The aims of the partnership are to:
l Discover and harness the existing environ- mental work going on in libraries;
l Build and support environmental under- standing and action within libraries;
16 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL
Rob Green (
rob.green@
cilip.org.uk) is Editor, Information Professional.
l Enable libraries to work with their com- munities to continue to build environmental understanding and support environmental action;
l Position libraries at the heart of local environmental programmes including those led by Local Authorities.
This pooling of knowledge and resources will allow the partnership to harness the work being done already in libraries across England and use it to develop consistent approaches. There is also funding from ACE to enable pilot projects and evaluate out- comes, helping to create a hub of best practice that can be shared across the sector. A new online resource sets out the role and aims of the Green Library Partnership, saying: “In the next five years, we want to develop a UK- wide, cross-sector programme focused on the
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