For Scotland’s Climate Week 2023, please join CILIP Scotland as we celebrate two years of our pioneering programme #CILIPSGoGreen with our online Green Libraries Gathering, filled with inspiring opportunities for Green Champions in LIS to collaborate, connect and reflect on library-led environmental action.

Our series of friendly and informative workshops taking place throughout the day will include:

10 – 10.30am – The National Library of Scotland’s plan to create a tailored Carbon Literacy for Libraries Toolkit, supported by the CILIPS Research Fund

10.30 – 11.10am – Green Libraries Scotland Grant Fund recipient updates

11.10 – 11.15am Screen break

11.15am – 12pm How to help green library spaces take root - CILIPSGoGreen x CILIPS23 and CILIPS Carbon Neutrality Plan template workshop

12 – 12.15pm A beacon of hope: visioning libraries for the future with Glasgow Women’s Library, supported by the CILIPS Research Fund

12.15 – 1pm Lunch

1 – 1.45pm Planting the seeds of sustainable collections with Scottish Book Trust

1.45 – 2.20pm Green Libraries Scotland Grant Fund recipient updates

2.20 – 2.30pm Screen break

2.30 – 3.00pm Paperboats – how library communities can stand (and sail) in solidarity with writers tackling the climate crisis*

* Please have a recyclable book, magazine or newspaper page ready to join the flotilla!

3.00 – 3.30pm Education for Sustainable Development through Libraries - how every LIS professional can have an impact (CILIPS x University of Strathclyde SLIC Innovation & Development Funded research-in-progress update)

3.30 – 4pm Optional breakout discussions and close

The Green Libraries Gathering is free, online and open to all CILIP members. Please register here to receive the Zoom link in advance.

If you have any access requirements you would like to add, please feel free to email us at admin@cilips.org.uk.

Book tickets here