Green Archives, Green Communities

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Green Archives, Green Communities
Kristen Yarmey-Tylutki, MLS
Digital Services Librarian
The University of Scranton
SAA 2009

The Big Picture

The (Less) Big Picture

Who is our society?

…And how do we get here?

Conservation Psychology
An applied field that “uses psychological principles, theories, or methods to understand and solve issues related to human aspects of conservation.”
Drs. Carol Saunders, Gene Myers, and Wesley Schultz
Recommended reading:
Doug McKenzie Mohr, Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Changing Incentives
Information is a start - but not enough.

Community-Based Social Marketing

Inside the archives
Co-workers

Commitment

The Green Team
Blog post courtesy of Beinecke Library (used with permission)

Incentives
Photo courtesy of Richard Drdul (under a Creative Commons license)

Feedback

Inside the archives
Patrons

Norms
Photos courtesy of feministjulie (under a Creative Commons license) and Keith Hinzman, LEED AP (used with permission)

Incentives

Prompts
Photos by kristenyt

Active Involvement

Active Involvement
Photo courtesy of Moffitt Library (used with permission)

Active Involvement
Images courtesy of Gail Borden Public Library (used with permission)

Outside our repository doors
Host institution

Leveraging Institutional Resources
Blog post courtesy of Beinecke Library (used with permission)

Neighbors

Leveraging Community Resources

Leveraging Community Resources
“I want it to be the first LEED-certified museum in the world.”
~ Peter Wege on GRAM
Photo courtesy of Fellowship of the Rich (under a Creative Commons license)

Active involvement
Photos courtesy of Gail Borden Public Library (used with permission)

Direct Contact/Social Diffusion
Photos courtesy of Gail Borden Public Library (used with permission)

Direct Contact/Social Diffusion

Professional colleagues

Knowledge Sharing

Professional Norms

Professional Norms
Images courtesy of dolescum and bulibraries (under Creative Commons licenses)

Purchasing

The Bottom Line
Sustainable archives

The Bottom Line
Host institution
You

Recommended Resources
Green Archives (coming soon!)
Doug McKenzie Mohr, Fostering Sustainable Behavior
Gerald T. Gardner and Paul C. Stern, Environmental Problems and Human Behavior
Sarah S. Brophy and Elizabeth Wylie, The Green Museum
Maria Anna Jankowska, “Sustainability Challenge for Academic Libraries: Planning for the Future College and Research Libraries” (preprint)
The Green Library (blog)
Going Green @ Your Library (blog)
Green Museums (wiki)
My delicious links: greenarchives, greenlibrary, greenmuseum

Green Archives, Green Communities

by Kristen Yarmey on Aug 13, 2009

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