Feed Green to Read Green: Green Library Movement for Sustainable Development

Mohapatra, Niranjan . Feed Green to Read Green: Green Library Movement for Sustainable Development., 2019 In: Next Generation Libraries: Emersing Technologies, Community Engagement & Future Librarianship. Ess Ess Publications, pp. 67-79. [Book chapter]

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The word “GREEN” has a different power for sustainable development i.e. green vegetables for health, green fodder for cattle, and green environment for peace of mind. As green feeds are useful for better health, green environments are also helpful for peace mind. A Green reading environment availed with natural air, natural light may be attracting the readers to Read, Relax and Refresh. Lack of green forest is cause of global warming and climate change etc, so everyone needs everything to be Green to save the earth. Day-to-day People’s interests are growing for green movement in different fields. In the field of Library and Information Science, a new concept named Sustainable Library or Green Library having popularity among LIS Professionals. People need green food to feed as well as green Library to read. Green Library is not only a thought, but also a movement towards the sustainable development of libraries all over the world particularly in development countries. The green library movement involves librarians, library staff, library users, libraries that are dedicated to greening libraries and reducing the environmental degradation. “Feed Green to Read Green” is a sign of “as people take care their body for a better health, they should take care their library’s health (development). It calls for “Go Green” in daily foods as well as daily library activities.

Item type: Book chapter
Keywords: Sustainable Library, Green Building, LEED, GRIHA, USGBC
Subjects: K. Housing technologies. > KE. Architecture.
Depositing user: Niranjan Mohapatra
Date deposited: 08 Dec 2020 05:39
Last modified: 08 Dec 2020 05:39
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/40758

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