An Interview with Kristīne Deksne, Library Development Expert, National Library of Latvia – Representative of the IFLA Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section (ENSULIB). The sustainability work is already there. The language isn’t. When...
An Interview with Timo Kuru, Specialist Librarian, Lappeenranta City Library The term was new. The content wasn’t. When Timo Kuru sat down for his ESG4GLAM interview, the acronym itself was unfamiliar. But the moment the three dimensions — Environmental, Social,...
An interview with Aiga Volkova, library manager, Latvia Already doing it — one topic at a time Aiga Volkova manages a library where sustainability is not a strategic framework — it is a daily presence woven into services and community engagement. The library organises...
A curator once explained sustainability without ever using the word. She said her job was to make sure objects would still make sense when none of us are around to explain them. That sentence contains an entire strategy. Cultural institutions don’t think in...
What does it mean to implement sustainability across an entire network of libraries? Linda Langenfelde, Deputy Director of Jelgava City Library, finds the answer somewhere between big-picture strategy and everyday problem-solving. She oversees 61 libraries in Jelgava...
