Library as Partner in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability

Bonnie J. SmithUniversity of Florida Libraries

Maria A. JankowskaUCLA Research Library

Higher Education Mandate for Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Role of Libraries in Higher Education Conventional Role

Changing Role

Current engagement of Academic Libraries

Vision for Academic Libraries for Sustainability Curriculum

Questions & Discussion

Agenda

1990 -

Talloires Declaration – 433 signatories from over 50 countries – with over 200 institutions from the United States and Canada

Among the 10 actions agreed to by signing:• Increase awareness of environmentally

sustainable development• Create an Institutional Culture of Sustainability• Educate for Environmentally Responsible

Citizenship• Foster Environmental Literacy for All• Practice Institutional Ecology

Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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2005- UNESCO Decade 2005-2014 of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

2006 – Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)

STARS – Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating SystemOver 250 participant institutions

Includes sections on:Curriculum – with 10 categoriesResearch – with 5 categories

Provide a guide for advancing sustainability in all sectors of higher education, from education and research to operations and administration. Enables meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions by establishing a common standard of measurement for sustainability in higher education.

Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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2007 –

American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment

(ACUPCC) with over 670 members

ACUPCC institutions have agreed to:• Integrate sustainability into the curriculum and

make it part of the educational experience• Make progress reports publically available

Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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In what ways can, and do academic libraries positively contribute to their institution’s STARS rating and commitment to sustainability?

Food for Thought

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Conventional Role

Organizing Cataloging Storing Archiving, Preserving Guiding users to information Providing tools for thoughtful inquiry

Providing service to the university community

Role of Libraries in Higher Education

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Changing Role

• contenders in a race for relevance, regard, and resources

• meeting space and support to foster communities of shared interest on campus

• new kinds of service to academic centers and research enterprises

• partnership with faculty members to enhance the strength of teaching and research

• digital imperative and ensuing challenges

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Role of Libraries in Higher Education

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Collaboration Centers

Role of Libraries in Higher Education

Cornell University Library

Health Science Center Libraries - UF

UNC – Health Science Library

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Embedded Librarians

Role of Libraries in Higher Education

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Institutional Repositories

Role of Libraries in Higher Education

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Exhibits

Role of Libraries in Higher Education

The UF Marston Science Library reef exhibit.

UCLA Libraries

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Curriculum Development and Course Design

Role of Libraries in Higher Education

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Professor

STUDENT

Librarian Curriculum

Current Engagement

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Curriculum for Sustainability

Task Force to Coordinate Efforts Related to Oil Spill

Sustainability Fellows

In what ways can, and do academic libraries positively contribute to their institution’s STARS rating and commitment to sustainability?

Food for Thought

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Given 1. the commitment of institutions to infuse sustainability across the curriculum2. the library’s role as center for collaboration and learning3. the libraries infrastructure and central position to work across all disciplines

Then:Libraries are naturally positioned to

coordinate the campus efforts to infuse sustainability across the curriculum

Vision

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Dedicated librarian to coordinate the library’s efforts on

sustainability across the curriculum

• work with librarians in all disciplines

• work with faculty in all disciplines

• work with the institution’s Sustainability Committee

• work with the institution’s Office of Sustainability

• work to create and promote an Institutional Repository of

curriculum, research and service activities that promote

sustainability

• work to increase sustainability related collections

• work to create a database of faculty available to speak

on sustainability topics

• work to create and promote exhibits and speaker series

on sustainability

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Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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Questions and Discussion

Library as Partner in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability

AGENDA

Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Role of Libraries

Current Engagement

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