Focus on educating for sustainability : toolkit for academic libraries / edited by Maria Anna Jankowska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jankowska, Maria Anna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic libraries--Relations with faculty and curriculum.

Academic libraries.

Academic libraries--Environmental aspects.

Libraries--Special collections--Sustainability.

Libraries.

Libraries--Special collections--Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sacramento, California : Library Juice Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Compiles best practices, case studies, and activities ready for implementation within academic libraries to advance a mission of education for environmental sustainability"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Section One Integrating Sustainability Literacy into Information Literacy ""; ""Legitimizing the Local: Integrating Sustainability into Information Literacy Instruction and First-Year Composition""; ""Three for One: Teaching Sustainable Education, Information Literacy, and Visual Literacy with the Inventory Compilation Assignment""; ""Literacy and Information Literacy: Leveraging Librarian Expertise""; ""Teaching Sustainable Information Literacy: A Collaborative Endeavor in the Humanities""

""Making Research Real: Focusing on Community-Based Sustainability""""Teaching by Doing: Sustainability Education and Practice in a Student-Services Program""; ""Library Showcase: Modeling Sustainability across Campus""; ""Section Two Building Collections Supporting Sustainability Curriculum ""; ""Building an Academic Library Collection to Support Sustainability""; ""Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Collection Development in Sustainability: Starting from Scratch""; ""Section Three Sustainable Scholarship ""

""Connecting Journal Articles with Their Underlying Data: Encouraging Sustainable Scholarship through the Public Knowledge Project and Dataverse Network Integration Project""""Library Publishing Services for Sustainability""; ""Community Archiving and Sustainability: Denison University�s Homestead""; ""Section Four The Landscape for Changes ""; ""Triple Bottom Line: Portable Applications and Best Practices for Sustainability in Academic Libraries""; ""Becoming Sustainability Leaders: A Professional Development Experience for Librarians""; ""Libraries as Sustainability Leaders""

""Greening the Mothership: Growing the Environmental Sustainability Group at the University of California, San Diego Library""""Putting Principles into Practice at a Catholic University Library""; ""Libraries: Growing a New Library Service""; ""Sustainability and the Increasing Energy Demand to Access Library Resources""; ""About Contributing Authors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781634000048

1-63400-004-8

OCLC:

913632410