The conception of sustainability from the perspective of library science

Abstract

The conception of sustainability is becoming more and more popular. It has been applied in librarianship field, and thereby from the beginning of the 90s of the twentieth century it began to be the subject matter of the world’s technical and research literature. In the article the terms green library and sustainable library were defined. Because of the lack of Polish literature on the subject, foreign literature relating to sustainability in librarianship was characterized. The frameworks of sustainability in relation to libraries in literature were presented.

Keywords

• bibliotekarstwo
• biblioteki
• bibliotekoznawstwo
• ekologia
• zrównoważony rozwój