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Going Green: The BIALL Sustainability Working Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2024

Christine Baird  and
John Miller
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Abstract

‘Going Green: The BIALL Sustainability Working Group’ was a parallel session presented by Christine Baird during the BIALL Annual Conference ‘Gaining the edge: investing in our skillset’, held in Belfast in June 2023. The session aimed to provide an introduction to the newly formed BIALL Sustainability Working Group. The session, and this subsequent article, outlines the group's aims, projects and structure, as well as the wider contexts which motivated the group's establishment. It discusses the ways in which information professionals can develop more sustainable working practices, both individually and by leveraging the power of our professional networks. This paper explores the opportunities for legal librarians to engage in community activism, and the importance of both this concept and of ‘cathedral thinking’ in responding to the climate crisis.

Keywords

BIALLsustainabilitylegal information providershard copy services
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Main Features
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2024 , pp. 42 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

1 IPCC, ‘2022: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability’ (Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press 2022) <www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/> accessed 01 September 2023

2 Fiona Harvey, ‘IPCC report: “now or never” if world is to stave off climate disaster’, The Guardian (London, 4 April 2022) <www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/04/ipcc-report-now-or-never-if-world-stave-off-climate-disaster> accessed 01 September 2023

3 ‘Nations Trust WNPS public lecture features Dr. Jane Goodall’, Colombo Gazette (Colombo, 16 June 2021) < https://colombogazette.com/2021/06/16/nations-trust-wnps-public-lecture-features-dr-jane-goodall/> accessed 1 September 2023

4 Nick King ‘Aspiring vision: Cathedral thinking in the modern world’ (IEMA, 2 October 2020) <www.iema.net/articles/aspiring-vision-cathedral-thinking-in-the-modern-world> accessed 01 September 2023

5 Thunberg, Greta, No one is too small to make a difference (Green Ideas) (Penguin 2019) 31Google Scholar