Case Exemplars of How Academic Libraries Promote Sustainable Communities

Sarah K. Tribelhorn is the Sciences and Sustainability Librarian at San Diego State University. She has been instrumental in leading sustainability initiatives in the University Library, including the formation of a library Sustainability Committee and the Library's participation in the Sustainable Libraries Initiative Certification Program (SLCP) for academic libraries to benchmark sustainability within the library.

Bharat Mehra is EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice and Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. His research promotes equity in library and information science and community informatics or use of information and communication technologies to empower underserved populations.