Abstract
Carbon footprint has become a popular way of communicating climate change issues and the need to change behaviour. Reduction of environmental burden or everyday environmental actions played an important role in the day-to-day activities of libraries. Libraries are in an excellent position to be both an ecological operator and promoter of environmental awareness. The methodology employed is survey. data collected was analyzed using decision mean of 3.00. findings from the study revealed that, libraries in Nigeria are not well ground on green library requirements, due to insufficient manpower, and tools. As a result of this, this study recommends that librarians must faces the challenge of finding solutions that adequately address these issues without compromising its economic development goals and the living standards of its people through environment awareness, communication strategies and reduction on environmental burden.
Highlights
Climate change and global warming are internationally recognized as current issues, driving negative effects on humanity, and being mainly caused by Green House Gas (GHG) emissions generated both from industrial activities, and from other anthropogenic activities
According to the Fourth Assessment Report prepared by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), activities of all nations generate increasingly more GHG emissions, having significant negative impacts on climate change due to alterations taking place in the compositional level of the atmosphere, and on rising the average global temperature since the mid of the 20th Century (IPCC, 2007)
The study findings revealed that there was no written policy in the higher education institutions studied, and decisions on preservation and conservation were arbitrarily and inconsistent meaning that most libraries do not possess no written policy and staff are not adequately trained to secure library collection from deterioration using traditional methods
Summary
Climate change and global warming are internationally recognized as current issues, driving negative effects on humanity, and being mainly caused by Green House Gas (GHG) emissions generated both from industrial activities, and from other anthropogenic activities. A look at studies conducted to promote a sustainable green library across the globe. Many information professionals in library profession have advocated for proper library architecture and reusing of print collections such as books, recycling paper instead of shredding them and burning into open air release carbon dioxide and disrupting the ozone layer as a result of ash emission into the atmosphere (Jankowska, 2008; Kuzyk, 2008). On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions – declared that all human beings have the fundamental right to an environment adequate for their health and well-being, listing out the following objectives: – acknowledged the importance of a commitment to sustainable development to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future, – asserted that library and information services promote sustainable development by ensuring freedom of access to information (IFLA, 2013)
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