Green Libraries Week 2024

Green Libraries Week runs from 7-13 October 2024, celebrating libraries with a focus on the climate and sustainability. We encourage you to begin planning your green activities for your communities. Send us your planned activities and events to be displayed on the map. Submit your activities for 2024 here. Resources are available on our Downloads page.

Every library a green library!

Green Libraries Week, led by CILIP, is the national, annual celebration of libraries, across all sectors, from public libraries on the high street to national, health and academic libraries where we focus on the climate and sustainability. 

The spotlight for 2024 is green initiatives, showcasing the imaginative and creative work libraries are doing with, and for, their own communities around the environment, sustainability and climate action.  

Green Libraries Week is a showcase of the very best that libraries have to offer, where they explore and celebrate inventive and inspiring activities engaging with local communities and the media to highlight the diverse ways that they are working with users to build skills and confidence at every stage of their lives.  

It connects libraries across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland to support them with green initiatives. 

 

 

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The success of Green Libraries Week shows that going green isn’t about the size of the action you take, but that any action can make a difference for the environment. 

Some of the events taking place in 2024 are: 

  • Carbon literacy for libraries training – a certified course providing library professionals of all sectors with a comprehensive introduction to carbon literacy and empower them to take action to reduce the carbon footprint of their library services. (Edinburgh) 
  • Electric Dreams, Combined home energy and electric vehicle information event exploring sustainable energy solutions and electric transportation options locally (Northumberland) 
  • Making bird feeders – Children’s nature craft event making pinecone or cardboard roll bird feeders, to take home to feed the birds in your garden (Cambridge) 


Green Libraries Week is organised by:

 

Green Libraries Week 2024 is sponsored by: