Sustainability and heritage collections at UL Library
Sustainability is a key concern for today’s society, ensuring we are doing everything in our power to safeguard our planet for future generations. Sustainability operates at every level of society, from global and national strategies to fight climate change, to the development of new technologies and renewable sources of energy, to individual responsibilities to reduce our carbon footprint and have a positive impact on the world around us.
Our advent calendar this year focuses the issue of sustainability in relation to preserving and caring for heritage collections in perpetuity. Sustainable collecting goes beyond just taking a considered approach to energy and materials use, to the very question of what we collect and why.1
Subscribe below or check back each day in December to explore how questions of sustainability shape the collection, curation and dissemination of archives and special collections at UL Library.
For more information on UL Library’s sustainability initiatives, click here. UL’s Sustainability Framework 2030 is available here, while more information about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is online here.
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- Georgina Robinson, ‘Come hell or high water: climate action by archives, records and cultural heritage professionals in the United Kingdom’, Records Management Journal 31, 3 (2021). Sustainability is listed as one of the UK’s National Archives 10 top priorities for the archival sector for 2023-25.[↩]
