Scotland’s Libraries, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Survey

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CILIP Scotland are proud to be collaborating with researchers at the University of Strathclyde to examine what public and school libraries are doing to promote and contribute towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Our goal is to provide a clearer understanding of what activities, programmes, and practices contribute to combatting climate change within the library sector. The research will gather data from public and school libraries across Scotland and investigate what impact factors such as location, local authority, and community demographics have on sustainable initiatives. It will also ask about any sustainability training available to library staff. Our objectives are to discover if a framework can be created to measure the impact of these library initiatives on the climate change agenda, and to explore ways of improving education for librarians and implementing sustainability initiatives in libraries.

If you work in a public or school library in Scotland, this survey is an opportunity for you to tell us what your library service is already doing within the climate change and sustainability agenda, what you are planning to do, and the opportunities and challenges you face. We suggest that the library staff member with the most knowledge and understanding of your library service’s sustainability initiatives completes the survey.

Information provided through individual survey responses will be treated as confidential and the researchers have access to the information for the purposes of analysis only.

The survey will be open until 31st July. Please click here for our public libraries survey and here for our school libraries survey – and feel free to share across your own networks too!

If you have any questions about the survey or the project, or if you would prefer a Word version of the survey to complete, please contact researcher Ellie Jack by emailing ellie.jack.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk.

This survey has been developed with thanks and reference to the Green Libraries Partnership survey.