ENSULIB Virtual Event 6 May 2021
all right one minute time and we can start let us wait that we have maybe some more participants hi harry all right it's three o'clock in helsinki so good afternoon from helsinki or folk it may be morning or late evening where you are but anyway welcome i am i'm at the moment cheer for insult and i wish to welcome you all to the very first virtual event arranged by environment sustainability and libraries if la section this event is the very first since end sleep has gained its saxon status only from the beginning of this year after being people are sick for 10 years and i'm very glad that we have as our co-host our former host section preservation and conservation originally our plan was to have a satellite meeting in cork island during the ifla flick 2020 under the same title environmentally inspired is inspiring and engaging buildings research education and library services unfortunately if leflic was cancelled due to covet 19 epidemic and the satellite meeting could not be arranged hence it was suggested that a virtual event might replace the original meeting in the autumn 2020 however the nslip team was so busy to prepare the transition from sick to saxon that we could realize the plan only now well we may stay better late than never so today we will finally hear short presentations of those projects which were supposed to be introduced in the cork satellite for my delight green libraries and environmental sustainability is well represented in this presentations but we have also attempted to include the present with pressure basin and conservation aspect and in this point let me introduce you ornela client from the presentation and conservation jackson the screen is young thank you ari okay yes good afternoon from milan milan is cloudy now i am arne lafollemy new chair of the stanley committee preservation and conservation being chaired in charge since few days 10 days i'm pleased to bring a short greeting on behalf of our standing committee to everybody so speakers connected people so i'm also a member in god for the satellite last year now concentrating in this short webinar but very exciting i will thank terry i don't know the pronunciation and all colleagues of new section and solip many wishing for the future i want to mention and that and then thank also uh the two of the two previous chairs of the preservation conservation alain kakich and james drews for their competency energy and empathy but i cannot forget the late danielle ninja 2 with whom i worked as officer secretary when the main topics in our section were concerned natural disaster emergency desperatists to rescue and curate damaged books since 2008 over the time they have sponsored the special interest group and sullivan you know they maintain the the first chair maintain a constructed relationship and active collaboration that has been always very positive now they are sectioned many many many missions again the general things for the initiative consider the possible impacts on libraries due to climate change and the sustainability of their services in the context of the sustainability sustainable the developing goals of agenda 2030 to which ifla constantly refers stimulating new projects and good practice to be implemented in libraries i believe that libraries have more and more a great role of propulsion and stimulation in local communities favors the grow of new awareness for attentive citizenship with the cubs pandemic that has hit all over the world it is necessary to stimulate and promote form of resilience and also the development of the sustainable new projects the new green libraries are growing too and can help to overcome the such economic and cultural crisis affecting the human society globally in many countries long time and diverse intensity of the lockdown have brought out about many changes in all life of all people also the daily use of digital for contacts for smart works in schools and has generated unthinkable widespread use of communication but also other power energy lacking in the future we pay attention this robot rises libraries are showing a good ability to react and to check to the changes imposed for the severe dramatic sanitary situation we don't know yet when it will be defeated the sustainability of libraries during the pandemic is one of the most discussed topics together with the impact on the coveted socio-economic and cultural life then on the old cultural heritage that should be protected and also valorized libraries as great app of information can give a high contribution i'm concerned for this preservation and conservation sharing reference lib drains mission will continue to collaborate also in the future it's my opinion desire we agreed to carry out together action for transformation with great commitment encouraging libraries to be more and more inclusive and more green i cut here because too long libraries have no to manage in difficult times the long-term preservation and conservation of registered analogical and distilleries all the libraries and archives too but also museum i think i think i know but also oral sources and in their context their buildings and landscape and so on the nature in general finally because here i have to thank but last but not least vivienne negan petra and other other colleagues of the professional government structure who support this event for day great availability and support thank you for your attention enjoy your your webinar thank you arnel we are going to have now our first free speakers and after that we have a short discussion so you can make your questions and i think it's best to make your questions in the chat so within will help us to to continue from there and our first speaker is jose pepitiello he has been director of eblida european bureau of library information and recognition documentation association since 2019 he has also served as the head of unit program advisor and expert in various international organizations like european commission and council of europe he is author of six books and more than 100 articles in librarian information science and history of culture and his title of presentation is libraries and the sdgs how to face the socio-economic pandemic and you're welcome the screen is yours thank you i'm going uh thank you for the presentation so i'm going to share my my my slides just a moment can you see them no no okay just i will try again and now okay now we see it yes perfect good full screen sorry for these technical inconveniences okay now i'm ready thank you very much for having invited me i'm very pleased to be in the within the anse loop ensleep context and uh so a few words about uh eblida for those who are not aware of of this organization i believe that stands for european bureau of library information and documentation associations and we cover uh 100 we cover 35 countries and we have some 130 members we tradition i mean we are our organization is born in 1992 and uh it was born so it's one of the oldest organization live organization active at the european level together with liber and we were born with the mission with a precise mission to lobby with european institutions and on legal matters something like copyright like lending rights and we have been doing this for at least 25 years uh two years ago then we uh we found out that uh in fact we started to sit let's say on the opposite direction of the train you know it may be a little bit uncomfortable if you sit in the opposite direction of the train but you have a clearer picture of your of the landscape and also you can focus on details and what did we did we found out we found out that actually copyright is a pervasive issue that landing right is a pervasive issue and all these things now are dealt with by within in library institutions there are special offices and of course all organizations now are well aware of of these legal matters so after the copyright directive of 2019 we tried to shift focus and we focused on sdgs i would like to say a few words about the the strategy that the bleeder is pushing also and to put it in relation with the e-flat strategy at least what is what appears from official documents there is a difference between a bleeder and e-fly in this approach we have a truly european approach and when you say but why isn't the program universal yes it is universal but there are many different i mean in europe for instance you know that there are 232 indicators for the united nations programs the agenda 2030 but in europe eurostat the official european uh the office of statistics only maintain 100 indicators and this is a because we europeans we think that we have attained many of the sdgs that are present in the united nations programs a second difference may be that uh uh sd uh ifly is calling for stories and i have created a wonderful tool the ivra library map of the world and you will find these stories in the uh in the lethal library map of the world um but we think that there is more that there are in europe at least we can go much further than stories and we can link we can create a true policies and policies for libraries that can just can be assessed through indicators and for this we have created the sustainable development house which enables administrators library administrators but also local administrators to what to advocate for libraries and it is what i would call advocacy from below uh there are four false myths uh we consider that should be uh that are present in the perception of the agenda 2030. the first is that uh sdgs are nice but they do not fall within the library's core mission i mean the library mission is to book circulation and then the reader are the sdgs that's not true we consider that the agenda 23rd is the new framework for libraries and it should be really the core mission of libraries also or even more so that it is the core mission of the european union and it is the commission for many many european countries the second the false myth is that sdgs are really focused on environment on climate change it is true but i would say that this is an involuntary greater thumb attuneburg effect it's the fact that we are all very much focused on environment but if you look at the whole of the sdgs then you find out that there is a very strong social and economic pillar the third false myth is that sdgs concern mainly macro policies you know fiscal and legislative policies and it is true indeed because if you have let's say a tax on fuel then of course you are incentivizing the acquisition of electric cars but yes i mean talking about the tax on fuels this happened in france like five years ago or four years ago they did the right move they put a tax on fuels and immediately after after they had yellow jackets in the streets and what does it mean this because they hadn't thought that before you go for micro policies you have look to look at micro policies in particular the change of lifestyles and we can see that the libraries can do a lot to change lifestyles and then the fourth false myth is that sdgs are nice but they are for small scale projects of demonstrated nature not at all i mean projects after project and especially if there is a national library policy for sdgs then it becomes a true a true policy and the true and this is the way the whole nation actually can attain sdgs so we um we started the strategy that was uh in 2000 so last year and the strategy as a very vague name it's think the unthinkable but i think that the the the the subtitle of this strategy is much eloquent it is a postcard european library agenda meeting sustainable development goals to be funded by uh european union structural and investment funds so this is a after the pandemic then we can go towards we can deal with the socio-economic pandemic so we have had three workshops last year in october and this year in the first half of 2021 we had workshops in seven countries france italy netherlands greece latvia and spain and we also are focusing on structural funds because we think that they help libraries to be structurally important in a country so what do we provide we provide think the unthinkable services of consultancy of change of best practices we also look for sources of funding how these projects can be funded and of course when the when the projects are implemented and this will be starting from next year then we will be looking at the internationalization of the projects uh we have created a tool and our most uh famous let's say tool is the ability matrix and i would uh really invite you to you to take your phone and to put into the google search box a bleeder matrix and you will find out you go into this section in this section you find the selection of the new programs of char which promote sdgs overtly section two is the library policies the covering sdgs because in fact there are library policies on sdgs in many countries france germany and a lot of countries actually many more than originally i had thought of then you also find funding opportunities for libraries and again i will say it's focused on structural funds the main eurostat sdg indicators and the library indicators too the ones that we are little by little discovering that can be relevant for the evaluation of library performances and how they can match sdg indicators uh i would like and here i am at the end of my presentation i would like uh to explain why we able to selected the european structural funds for 2021 2027. you are you are well aware that there are many european programs and i mean many libraries know about horizon they know about uh erasmus but creative europe but all these programs in all these programs in fact there is a strong r d requirement at least in horizon for instance but also in creative europe something that must be at the cutting edge you know where the in structural funds projects the r d requirements is not essential because there is room for small as well as for big libraries then uh programs are the s the structural funds are administered at national level therefore you don't have to create these complex networks at european level and because structural funds are of local nature then libraries are strongly connected with local communities and there is a more there is more room for them to uh first to use these funds and also to implement activities and then finally it may be down to earth but the structural funds normally accounts for one third of the whole european union budget so there is an extremely really there is a kind of bonanza that can be used by libraries so we are providing these services and at the end of the day i mean we hope that all libraries will be structurally important for the european union and i'm at the end of the my presentation and i thank you for your attention thank you very much i said we shall go on now and then have a short discussion after three speakers and the next one is minamanika whose district manager of library services in older city library which is located in northern finland this is for developing the libraries customer experience mobile and self-service libraries as well as sustainability issues in in general and her title of presentation is a responsible library as promoter of environmental awareness thank you harry and good afternoon from finland uh my name is min naman and i work in as district manager of library services here in olo city library and i will now start sharing my presentation yes we can see it now okay great great great okay so i'm here to tell you about our project called a responsible library as promoter of environmental awareness and regional state administrative agency in northern finland admitted 35 000 euros for this project to improve libraries sustainability and this project lasted 11 months and all the city library acted as project leader and e municipal library and cool somosity library as partners in the project what we had in mind when we started to plan this project in municipal education and cultural services schools and daycare centers reach children and young people in their daily lives and provide importance important environmental education through them as a responsible actor the library has the opportunity to reach especially the adult population in their daily lives and to promote their environmental awareness and ways of taking it into account in the various activities of everyday life the public library could take the role as an ecological educator in society through this project olo city library aimed to increase the environmental awareness of staff and customers thereby raising awareness of environmental issues among local habitants the aim was also to review the energy logistics recycling and collection practices of the library and to reduce the environmental impact of its operation in this project olo city library aimed to develop a sustainable library roadmap based on the un program of action on sustainable development agenda 2030 and its objectives the foundation is also based on city of olo environmental program and on library's own eco promises we aim to design libraries a green visual image that can be seen both in customer rooms for library users and on staff premises for librarians the output of the project can also be used in regions other libraries as well as in the units of other actors in municipal education and cultural services we aim to provide training for employees to manage energy issues related to their own work and to raise other environmental awareness and training events open to customers were also organized and then we aimed also to develop libraries recycling processes so that all recoverable material is diverted to recycling or power generation what did we achieve with this project the project produced information material for libraries in the area and for other actors the environmental awareness of library staff and customers is increasing contributing to the reduction of each each of its own ecological footprints and the ecological burden of libraries own activities will be reduced in the future and as examples of information material are different kind of publication templates like this powerpoint model which i am using and this logo here in finnish and in english and project produced also waste signs for waste bins and informative stickers which can be used in staff and customer rooms but the most important environmental act of the project was the preparation of an action plan for sustainable development for the oil city library and the roadmap supports the library's environmental work and will will make the work more consistent and planned and the roadmap is based on the goals of the u.n agenda 2030.
the roadmap defines the main development areas and sets employment implementation plan for each area the four key targets of the roadmap are increasing the environmental awareness reducing environmental impact responsible construction and the sustainable library of the future the roadmap also lists two special targets for further advancement and these are resource-wise regional development work and promotion of better remote work practices and all targets were also reflected with the agenda goals although all 17 sdgs are relevant to libraries in some level we decided to take 11 of them which best reflect the aims of our sustainability plan as the basis for this roadmap and these are goals number 1 3 4 7 9 10 11 12 13 16 and 70. here you can see all these 11 goals how they are included in each target on the roadmap the overall aim is that the sustainable development will happen through all areas of libraries everyday work and that way it commits everyone to our sustainable work in the future here is a straight link to a video of the sdgs which we are committed to and a link to summary of the roadmap if you wish to look more closely into that later thank you so much for this opportunity to tell you about our interesting project and for further information you can contact me thank you thank you amin and we will continue straight to the portugal our next speakers are leone leonardo caspar of them are researchers at sham center for the humanities in university thank you very much for having us i will be presenting uh but paulo will also be present and will both can answer any questions that you have let me just see if i can share it properly yes we can see it and now if you can carry it little bigger be nice thank you yes perfect thank you eric our presentation intends to discuss the integration of sustainability competencies in library information studies in portugal for those that may not know where portugal lies let me just say that is one of the 27 member states of the european union and we have borders with spain and with the atlantic ocean it is generally accepted that competencies acquired from higher education are a key driver of social and economic transformation there are even some authors that say that universities have been assigned the central world in sdgs and as they were set by the 2030 agenda therefore it is our belief that lis education must play a key role for compass development for sustainability culture supporting inter and trans disciplinary research to deal with complex changes that we are facing although there has been considerable progress in the incorporation of sustainable development into the curricula and via education institutions in europe particularly on competencies for sustainable development and on pedagogical approaches there has been limited research on the connection between how courses are delivered from the pedagogical view and how they may affect sustainability competencies in what specifically concerns the intersection of library information service studies with sustainability competencies management and sustainability itself the main research focus has been on sustainability literacy in this context we seek we seek to contribute to the debate on sustainability transdisciplinary context and also on the relevance of reflecting on lis students recognizable qualifications profile and employability we want also to discuss the strategic approach to sustainability contents in lis studies that we followed in our university and current indie creation of a mastering information management creation in 2015. the strategic approach to sustainability competence that we developed in the master in information management creation is manually anchored in two course units one before is performance evaluation and sustainability in information services and the other course unit is organizational management and behavior in what concerns the logical methods both course units put an emphasis on students activating methods frequently focused on solving real community problems for instance in the performance evaluation and sustainability courses students explore and apply the model for the alignment and evidence gathered of libraries contribution to sustainable goals which is part of a guide for libraries which is main focus is to to teach and to guide all to align goals that are at the macro level just like joseph vitello mentioned about the the main focus of everything so we what we try to do in that guide which was tested in public libraries is to help our line macro level strategies and policies what the local level of action of public libraries during these two course units students should develop a set of competencies that are useful and targeted sustainability these complexes are critical thinking and analysis strategical environment which is this this focus on on the ability of aligning the macro level what medso and nuclear levels systems thinking and it's anticipatory thinking evidence based management and impact evaluation advocacy and personal involvement communication and use of social media and narrative tools ethics equity inclusion and tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty and sustainability informational behavior as to the main outcomes of our experience in india's academic contests this approach prepares students for sustainability intervention areas such as information and sustainability literacy trainers first or facilitators for libraries internal and or external audiences and stakeholders to advocacy impact evaluation and evidence-based management to promote information services contribution to sustainable development and third research on sustainable informational behavior and greening libraries to embed the concept of sustainability into our everyday life and information practices so these are our contacts for any questions or to know further about our experience please contact us thank you very much for your attention thank you leonardo and now we indeed to have questions you can make to to the three speakers so is there any anything on the set um i am not seeing any questions in the chat right now all right so please make your questions now i was delighted to see how well the sdgs were in presented on this section nobody has any comments or questions i'm not seeing any comments or questions right now all right in that case i guess we can go on we are well in time all right we have one girl um it's from michaela can you share can you share any specific examples leonard of videos brainstorming exercises teamwork etc etc that energize your groups well for instance we we use that that model for alignment and we we use it in in public libraries content so if students were able to to develop a prototype for specific libraries so they can gather evidence of their contributions so it's kind of field work but in well in a in a controlled unlimited time of the course unit and another experience in in the other course unit which is a student it's more managed management information students prepare uh apply for for a prize that is is well it's it's carried on by a management uh association that has to do they have to to prepare an idea of improvement under the the theme of building back better so they are just in this running for this prize together with other students it doesn't it's not the important is not to uh to win but to be able to understand the concept of sustainability in applied way and making the information management as a valuable resource and to compete with for instance with them with other management courses our focus is always on information i don't know if i hired something more to the question of our colleague all right i guess that was answer it for question you see any other comments or questions uh vanilla i hope i say your name correctly saying she's very interested in leonore's presentation okay thank you and that's all we have for now all right in that case let us go on and our next speaker is leo ma he is upper head of upper campus libraries at the chinese university of hong kong apart from managing branch libraries he has spearheaded several digital humanities in initialities and currently he is a standard committee member of ifla academic and research libraries section and he has published more than 20 monographs and presented numerous conference papers and his title of presentation is revitalizing learning spaces an environmentally sustainable library project of transforming the united college version library of the chinese university of hong kong and again you can make questions on on the chat we are going to have two speakers and after that short discussion but now you're welcome leo and the screen is yours thank you uh harry can you hear me yes i can hear you thank you um good morning um afternoon or evening depending where you are and it is evening in hong kong and i'm so pleased to have this wonderful opportunity um to share what we have done in our library let me share my screen first can you see the screen this slide yes perfect okay thank you thank you harry and um yes and i'm so happy to you know talk about our project um you know a couple of days back a couple of years ago and to revitalize the learning spaces of the united college wujong library and because of time i may not be able to go into you know very details about our life our university our library systems but it's suffice to say that i mean the chinese university of hong kong is a government you know funded university and we have all together seven uh libraries uh one main library plus six branch libraries and united college woojung library is one of the branch libraries okay yeah now as we all know i mean um traditionally uh we got you know uh libraries not only academic library but in particular academic library was you know regard as a place a storing space for you know library collections and to fulfill our missions to support you know the learning teaching and research needs of the university community it has been you know working so well for so many decades and and uh but of course um today we expect um you know much more about academic library and and has also undergo you know evolutionary changes and today and you know academic library is no longer simply a collection space it is also a a you know a a collaborative and active learning space so that to facilitate the exchange of ideas and to foster the acquisitions and the creation of knowledge and even much more if we talk about you know the third space and i like very much um you know this framework put forward by coming hand and table uh about the attributes of library as a learning space um you know in this pyramid it it you know uh working very nicely from a very tangible attribute like you know locations songs which space collections and information and network which is they are all infrastructures they're related to access and languages but when we move upward we talk about you know users users of the libraries and activities inside the library reading writing collaborating you know etc and much more we talk about connection between you know users connection between users and librarians which is dissociability and up on the to a pyramid it is talk we talk about ambience and sense of scholarship we talk about the library image we talk about you know comfort confidence uh comfortable and you know a places for our users so this kind of framework can very nicely shape you know what we can do about uh our library in particular academic libraries a little bit of background about you know a chk library in short and uh we we are kind of busy places we have 2.5 million wishes annually and but of course these figures we you know this record you know i was uh uh in you know 2019 and um well of course we have um a drop of usage and in particular in hong kong when we talk about the social movement when we talk about the kobe 19 last year but we believe you know in designing our libraries as a welcoming inspiring and sustainable spaces is our mission and we believe our library should be spaces where users interact with both print and digital collections as well as studying individuality and collaboratively and we provide space for serious studies individual theory studies we arrive for you know group and collaborative studies we believe you know uh these the library should be spaces that they are technologically rich and vibrant responding to the changing needs for learning teaching and research tools and technologies i think about the research data management thing about all these you know open science technologies that we have to fulfill as academic libraries now uh this is a snapshot of the um you know the youtube united college wujong multimedia library you might already notice that hey there is a a very um you know unique uh word called multimedia library and actually um a day back in 2001 uh united college uh uh uchung library was turned into a multimedia library by that it means the entire buildings was used to host all sorts of multimedia libraries but you can see i mean from these snapshots um you know this space inside the multimedia libraries uh was i was pretty crammed and looking from inside to the outside there are a lot of you know obstacles and it is not very nice outlook a nice wheel but actually in terms of the landscape you know united college uh library was situated on the kind of the top queue side with a lot of greenery and we next to our you know water tower so uh in you know kind of evaluating our library in 2018 we make use of all these elemental you know uniqueness and advantages to you know design our libraries and what we have done is to make sure that the west facade of the ground floor of the main entrance as well as the south west corner are designed uh using frameless transparent window walls so that user can enjoy the natural outdoors with dewey lawns and trees the same concept actually applied to the east versa lower ground floor to bring in this spectacular waterfall wheel the next concept is about free movement inside the library the past obstacles on the ground floor plan are removed to make sure that the core of the vertical circuit circulation possible in maximizing air freshness and student convenience and using the new cluster design reading spaces and e-learning facilities and the uh on the upper floors of the library building uh the bookshelves were uh were rearranged as clusters such that various interconnecting reading rooms that quote an unquote defined by the bookshelves are formulated this is intended to depict a quiet atmosphere for oneself or being surrounded by knowledge so this is the new look of the library after renovation and you can see we kind of you know developed we built in a lot of you know a nice study space as well as a very greenery you know outside view the lawn outside the library to make sure that the library is connected to the environment outside connected to the greenery so to on the ground floor and the lower ground for it is a integrated and open space which is attractive and inviting environment we provide group studies area on ground floor and learning cluster uh with pcs on lower ground floor on the first and second floor we provide individual and quiet study space which uh a philosophy collection was is housed on the second floor and major chinese classical text on first and second floor now after the renovation and of course uh we changed you know the library from a multimedia library to a uh what we call a boutique humanities-based library on upper campus and actually we i mean united college library has been serving as a multimedia media library for 18 years already thinking about the streaming technology thinking about the video on demands we we saw a a huge drop in usage of the multi-lead i mean the physical multimedia collections so we decided to you know uh renovate the library into a boutique humanities app libraries and the previous multimedia library area on the ground floor and delayed reading room on the lower ground floor have turned into a collaborative learning space with it bridge facilities and of course this facilitate the you know the collaborative studies as well as e-learning activities inside is you know a user space on ground floor as well as lower ground floor uh we provide you know a range of you know technologies you know um from hardware software and as well as including the very free facilities to our users to make sure that i mean the united college region library is a technology rich and user friendliest library and and of course we make use of this opportunity to embed the environmental issues and environmental improvement in this library and the co2 detectors were installed at risk to measure the indoor air quality and indoor human occupancy counting its motion sensors monitors the air freshness and controls the ventilation need based on the number of visitors this installation aims to improve environmental quality as well as cost effectiveness secondly with the budget environmental concern we have recycled an upcycle approximately 50 of the box shelves and the old rigging cables as you can see in the photos by putting newly made a plywood what a table top with ash wood plastic veneer pre-installed with electric plugs usb hubs and lan ports for modern day elasticity on the photo on the right hand side we have all these usb usb hubs uh with electric products on on the top of the build of the of the tables and after evaluation we conduct a user survey uh in 2019 remember our renovation was conducted in the summer of 2018. we collect users comments about the new service facilities and the environment of the library after refurbishment in the summer of 2018 we received to 239 response print response is 172 we are also resolved receive 67 online response and uh because of time again um there's a whole range of you know questions uh in the survey and we if we just focus on the uh final question as well as the overall rating we as we see a very good response from our users and obviously they like the evaluation of the library they like the change of the libraries from a previously multimedia library concept to a user space as well as you know humanities-based libraries concept so uh this is the end of my presentation thank you very much thank you leo and let us go forward to dr mohamed said miroslav he is a principal librarian at international islamic university islam about pakistan he has published several research papers in journals of repute he has also searched pakistan library association as the federal promise as assistant secretary yes here you are fine and his title of presentation is perceptions overleas professionals about environmental sustainability in academic libraries you're welcome thank you very much harry i'm sure you are listening me yes i can hear you okay thank you very much thank you to harry and all the authors and the presenters particularly for giving this opportunity to present survey based research with my international colleagues so i would like to share my screen yes let us see how it works i'm sure my screen is yes you can see it thank you and if you can make it a little bigger it would be nice yes yes yes i'm doing okay yes now it's perfect yes yes i would like to start for my introduction as pakistan is then at number five among the most vulnerable countries to be affected by climate change according to a report published by the think tank german watch in february 2020 pakistan has lost about 10 000 lives suffered economic damages for 3.8 billion dollars
and encountered 152 extreme weather events between 1999 to 2018. according to a worldwide report managing air and water pollution managing land and water sustainability including agriculture and modern access and building resilience international disasters are three major challenges to environmental sustainability in the country pakistan has paid serious attention to addressing growing environmental changes challenges in recent times several policies and public sector initiatives have been fed and several acts in legislation have been promulgated strengthening of environmental protection agencies and we say here epa environmental protection justices agencies at federal and provincial levels setting up of environmental laboratories environmental course national environment quality standards certified setting up the national energy efficiency and conservation authority are all significant masters by the governments to minimize adverse effect of this global challenge awareness and mobilization of human resources on this issue is utmost required on war shooting so my paper basically is an attempt in this direction just to see how our librarians information professionals are aware about this big phenomena this pakistan is being faced so the core objective of this research is to understand the perceptions of library and information professionals about environmental sustainability and practices in academic libraries are pakistan the methodology which i have used to investigate the research objective using i have used the quantitative methodology and online survey of earliest professionals was launched on three lisas on yahoo groups and only 49 responses were submitted i think it's small response but however i it was not have any second option so i decided to use this response for the analysis of this paper uh if we see the data analysis of this paper regarding the sector the responsible form public sector there were about 70 percent uh response rate while uh 30 percent libraries were from private sector if we see uh province wise we can see here that majority of the response were from the province punjab and islamabad capital territory regarding the gender we can see here majority of the respondents are made about 81.6 percent while the age group responded majority about 26.5 percent belongs to the age group 31 to 35 years
uh if we see about the qualification of the respondents majority 53 percent regarding the experience of the respondents 30 percent are have 11 to 15 years of experience this slide shows the qualification of the respondents from this uh from where they got uh this slide shows the department of information management uh university of punjab and alumni call open university are the two major institutions from where the respondents got their education uh when i asked does your institution have an environmental sustainability policy response was 65.3 there was no sustainability policy available and uh when i asked what is the level of your awareness about environmental sustainability and green library practices on five-point liquor scale we can see 2.91 was the mean mean awareness level is is somewhat most of them are somewhat are slightly aware and regarding the green library level its mean values compartment and the results are clearer to the awareness level about the environmental sustainability when i asked the respondents when you first time listen about environmental sustainability practices or clean library practices so we can see the responses from this table that majority have no awareness before this survey and 1 and 13 mean 26.5 have one to two years before they listen about this phenomenon
these are some statements on which i ask the respondent to give their response so the statements were the design of your library sport use of natural air and light 40 0.8 percent were agreed mean uh 40.8 percent libraries they have the natural air and light facility in their live radius mean regarding the environment sustainability next i ask the design auto library has proven to storage and use of rain water for gardening and wc flushing saves water and money 16.3 percent just was agree and when when i asked about the soft pads i have been putting on the feed of studies years to minimize nice significantly six point five percent were afraid and plantation has been made inside and outside the library to create awareness among the patterns about environmental sustainability at 26.5 percent were agree about this statement when i asked about your library gets rid of waste by compositing 2.4 yeah when i asked about your library tries to best to keep your empty trash
cans been around library premises to help patrons to properly dispose of purpose uh you can see here the response rate is very amazing thirty six point seven percent and uh your library has sufficient stock to keep environment needed clean at fifty three percent or aggregate about this statement so far liquid is provided in the toilet restrooms of your library 25 were agreed about this statement and and dryer is installed in the toilet or restaurants percent were agreed about this statement when i asked about your library provide separate recycle bins for different types of waste trash inside and outside the library to support recycling activities 38.8 were added library staff is aware to write on both sides of the paper to reduce the paper consumption about this statement 36.7 percent world as well uh the next statement about the printers either uh duplex printer is being used thirty eight point eight percent were agreed uh when i asked about recycling of the ink cartridge for the printing 18.4 percent were agreed uh regarding solar energy to use as an alternative 18.4 percent were agreed
and about the timer sensor lights reduce electricity usage 3.5 percent were agreed when i asked about the laptop computers were given preference to desktop compressors to save electricity 22.4 per agree and use of ceiling fan to cool down library premises instead of air conditioning 49 were heavy and when i asked about the usage of ebooks uh to encourage to reduce the use of paper based information sources 38.8 percent were everything and regarding the last seven statements the library had digitized or digitalized uh its indigenous production to save the spaces 46.9 percent were added
uh about time is running out so okay okay okay yes yes i'm going to close just it's a second last slide so digitization has facilitated preservation 30 were agreed about the email communication with the pattern instead of the paper-based or the surface mail 26.5 were agreed and the about the online catalog of this library has reduced the use of paper and has facilitated remote user thirty seventy eight percent were agreed so uh the these were some statements and regarding uh the uh to create the awareness among the library professionals 90 percent were agreed or they ranked it at the number one that lia schools include environmental sustainability or green library practices in the curriculum so uh about the implication uh this study it meant that la schools in the country should include the modern concept of environmental sustainability uh to prepare their graduate speech information literacy in environmental sustainability library association ways may organize seminars conferencing and workshops to educate their members constitution of special interest group initiate a newsletter are allocating some pages in already published a newsletter and launching a blog for this course may increase awareness about environmental sustainability among lis professionals in the country so thank you very much for your patience and your support thank you very much thank you and now we have time for questions do we have any questions already folio or muhammad's site um i don't have any questions for our second group of panelists but i did have two questions for for lea leonor back in group one so um if anyone have questions for um dr mirza or um for our group two list please go ahead and type it in the chat or use the q a before we go back to group 1. all right and i think that in the end we can have questions for all the panelists if you okay we have one we have one question coming in um this is for the first speaker of group two i'm i'm thinking what do this for leo yes um so what do the student do primarily in the new library space and the patrons volume increase and the patrons volume increase or decrease after the renovation uh thank you for these very good questions but i have a problem with my video on the webcam is apparently i cannot you know turn on my webcam can we even help me on this yeah oh there we go uh you can try now uh okay let me try again yes no no i was not allowed to um use my weapon anyway i answered the question first and basically and after you know uh converting the uh united college library from a multimedia library to a humanities-based libraries we concerned very much about how our library has been used by our users by our students in particular and we have statistics for for example using our lower ground floor which was originally a what we usually call a late reading room that is the uh the space uh was open in in the mid light for the students for state studies and after renovation it was turned into a 20 uh 24x7 uh learning cluster and this learning cluster space i uh was very well received uh by our users and the patronage of these learning cluster has been increased by 50 more than 56 percent uh of of the use of the of these learning clusters on our lower ground floor but you can imagine as i already mentioned that in hong kong we have a very unique situation in 2019 and remember our renovation was completed after the summer of 2018 but in the 2019 uh we have we have i mean in hong kong there will say social events and and that effects are very much about you know the um use of the libraries so and of course when we talk about the 2020 and of course we are affected by the kobe 19 we you know we lock down for some period of times so and the usage of the library in these couple of years has been you know seriously affected by you know various reasons but at least for the uh you know learning cluster on the lower ground flow of the united college library as we i mentioned uh it uh it has been proved that the uh i mean collaborative learning space uh is a very very well received space for our users thank you i hope i have already i have answered the questions all right we would have time for another question a comment um do we have any the any other questions for our group two panelists please go ahead and put it in the chat if not dr mirza has to leave us so thank you so much dr mirza and we will hopefully to see you again in our future ve all right fine and let us continue to our our group free this is maybe a little more special projects so we start with elaine harrington and john who they are both from the university college cork ireland elaine is a special collection librarian and she has of over 15 years experience teaching people to think critically about information and john is the senior technical officer department of music his research's interests include production and post production of sound for screen medium he is also a former content content producer for balcony tv cork and the presentation title is the shock project records quarks soon to be forgotten anthropo sin sounds so you're welcome the screen is yours thanks very much harry um welcome to all i'm going to share my screen now let's start the presentation and now it's perfect very excellent great so thanks very much to ifland and zulub for the opportunity to present and whoops got there too soon there we go so in 2017 members of university college corks department of music and the library created this interdisciplinary research project the sonic histories of cork city or the shock project which explores relationships between sound space and history from 2017 to 2020 the shock project used archival and historical sources to investigate what locations in cork city might have sounded like in the city's past and from our research we created historically informed narratives and audio soundscapes for these historically informed soundscapes we use textual and visual sources like photographs travel narratives and maps in combination with sonic sources like film to redraw the lines of what might be considered the historical record however for researchers in the near or far future we also wish to capture cork's contemporary sounds when listening to sounds of the city each of us may only hear our own interests and as we only may travel across parts of the city the sonic fingerprint of the other parts is a mystery to us therefore capturing any city's sonic contemporary fingerprint is best completed as part of a community and to achieve this we developed songcatcher an online collection tool which allows anyone to contribute the sounds of course ever changing contemporary spaces in early 2020 we started to think about the anthropocene this unofficial unit of geologic time when human activity activity has started to have a significant impact on the planet's climate and ecosystem in part we started because ucc libraries green energy team ran a love our library campaign on twitter which contributed to ucc being named the ninth greenest university globally um in the ui green metric world university rankings for through 2019 we asked ourselves which sounds are particular to now in much the same way that when we think of harpsichords we think of the 18th century however 2020 had other plans and as the year progressed we developed a new sound shorthand for the pandemic all the new sounds of personal protective equipment and the resurgence in the natural environment and john will speak more on this throughout today's presentation we're using the lens of sustainability and the urban environment to examine the changing sounds of cork city and we explored these changes via sound catcher contributions blog post and soundscape and we invite you to tour our website for more i'll now turn to the importance of collecting and preserving contemporary sounds london's v a museum of art and design defines rapid response collecting as acquiring contemporary design and manufacturing objects in response to major moments in recent history many of the moments are newsworthy either because they advance what design can do or because they reveal truths about how we live in 2014 a survey of 430 unique and distinct collections held in ireland's khanna libraries was undertaking including capturing preservation needs but a mere two percent of these 430 collections were identified as possibly containing sound in any type of media one of the challenges the shock project faces is the how and where to preserve this 21st century environmentally related sonic heritage we record pages of our website in the wayback machine place our sounds and repositories such as the nodo or by creating digital object identifiers 19th century ship weather logs now provide insights to the earth's changing climate therefore it is imperative to preserve the shock project anthropocene sonic record for as yet unknown future cultural research and i'm now going to hand you to john who'll talk on the practical sound recording aspect john thanks elaine um so a key element of the project is the engagement with the city and the wider community and we've organized several events where we encourage the public to join in on sound walks and familiarize themselves with the practice of listening to the environment while also making recordings with whatever they have available and typically that's just a mobile phone but the air to field recording is best practiced using a portable audio recorder and a pair of headphones wearing headphones and pointing the microphone is quite an insightful experience as we start to hear sounds hear a notice sounds which usually pass through us unconsciously as the ethnographer stephen fell describes it the practice of field recording presents an enhanced way of listening to people places and objects perspective plays an important role when field recording with the microphone acting as a sort of lens magnifying sounds as you get closer to them in the slide you can see an image of a motor of a singer sewing machine in a sewing shop in cork city center and attached to the motor is a contact microphone which captures the mechanical rhythms which accompany the users of these machines of course there are a whole plethora of microphones available each with its own set of characteristics and uses but much can be achieved with simple low budget devices um r murray schaefer who popularized the term soundscape and who founded the world soundscape project in the 1970s talks about the soundscape being composed of various general types of sounds these include keynote sounds which can be could be background sounds which often are act unconsciously on us such as for example the home of the ventilation system in your library um sound signals these have more some semantic meaning and they alert us to things and then sound marks are more location specific so in court for example we have the shendon church bells or we have the industrial activity at the corks port and of course these general uh groupings can be categorized in a multitude of ways for tagging and archival purposes as elaine mentioned earlier um the sound catcher app is a tool hosted on our website which allows users to upload geotagged recordings with accompanying descriptions tags and images these are then then displayed on an interactive map sounds can vary from discrete individual sounds to broader soundscapes and here you can see various points representing sound recordings around the city and of course we hope these types of projects will uh serve future sound historians of course naturally we started to ask how has the global pandemic affected the soundscape of the city and what are the sounds that define this strange time various stages of government lockdowns uh have resulted in decreased human activity in our towns and cities and at times led to our city centers been almost abandoned the whitening of the urban soundscape led to a lot of commentary on the perceived increase in birdsong for example this at a time when electric mobility devices such as electric cars bikes scooters are becoming more widely available is continuing to shift the urban soundscape however the onset of kovid has brought with us a new sonic palette which plays a mechanized soundtrack to our maladaptive behaviors of sanitizing scrubbing cleaning and socially distant forms of communication for example the ucc library like many buildings has changed as activities and cleaning protocols and the slide shows some examples of these the soundscape of the city is likely to further evolve as traffic is electrified and the movement of heavy industry away from our city centre continues in cork for example much of the port activity which defines the soundscape of that part of the city is in the process of being moved further out the harbour and we're actively documenting this activity before the sound of foghorns cranes and larry's fades from the consciousness of city dwellers to hear a short montage of field recorded sounds which have become familiar to people using ucc's library during the pandemic i would encourage you to see our latest blog post by searching the shock project and i think we'll post a link to that in the group chat if you want to check it out so thanks very much for listening thank you thank you elaine and sean i'm let's let us go to our last speakers final actually france and andrew fosberry they are both from library of congress is analyzer chief in preservation research and testing division she's an international specialist on environmental deterioration to cultural objects and andrew is a preservation researcher presidential research and testing division also in library of congress he researches using internet based technologies to improve data sharing and collaboration between the sciences and humanities in cultural heritage institutions and the title of presentation is assessing the condition of the united states national collection and vanilla you are already there you're welcome thank you um such a pleasure to be here and uh andrew will be controlling our slogic this morning so a really wonderful presentation so far thank you so much and i just wanted to give you an overview of the project we've been working on our melon funded project uh next please next please so one of the challenges we have uh with our collections and which is why i've been thinking a lot is you've been talking about sustainability is so much of our collections are still in print form and the digitization of those to make them digitally accessible is a huge challenge and many institutions are making a lot of withdrawal and retention decisions based upon very subjective and incomplete information there's been a number of uh print and future and print initiatives that have talked about the need for objective data in terms of assisting with decision making to make those decisions and that's been a large part of what we've been looking at here is we think about what sort of pragmatic decisions need to be made next please so it's a little bit of background about the project we had 540 000 for 14 months we will be extending that timeline given that we were not allowed into our building for about eight or eight eight months or a little behind with the physical testing but our two researchers andrew and robin have been phenomenal and uh working to try and get back on track with that and so the point is to actually objectively assess the condition um of a select set of uh representative sample of books from the time period 1840 to 1940 which is really where we'd start to see the mass production of books and the acidic papers so we wanted to take that time snap to look at what where the challenges might be and we're literally looking at physical chemical optical data to assist with those those decisions next please we have five research partners so essentially five different climatic zones cornell miami washington arizona and you lose the colorado boulder and they are we're analyzing the same 500 volumes from all of the partners i tried we did a representative statistical extraction from all of the different uh decades so that we could try and make sure that we had a good representative sample from those uh next please i just want to give you a link to the webpage that explains a little bit more i know we'll just be talking about this very briefly today but hope you'll visit our web page there to sort of look at the project and see a little bit more about what we're doing and we keep trying t
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