Informational sustainability in libraries: enhancing more inclusive, egalitarian and sustainable services
We see that our proposal meets the objectives of the event, since we seek to defend the inclusion of actions, products and services to be implemented by libraries in line with the dimensions of Sustainable Development: environmental, social and economic. In addition to including a fourth dimension (which we defend), a dimension of ‘Informational Sustainability (SI)’. We emphasize that the use and access to information to achieve Sustainable Development is not a recent discussion, but has intensified in recent years and has become a focal point for many libraries and information professionals. And by including in the services provided by the Libraries the dissemination, use and access to sustainable information, it becomes a promising way for society to reflect on its human role, its individual and collective actions in improving life and the planet today and for people. future generations. Access to information can be a means of promoting the dissemination of knowledge about what sustainability is and the benefits of sustainable development by viewing conscious, obliged and participative citizens in global sustainability actions, in the elaboration and monitoring of efficient legislative projects in line with objectives of global environmental socio-economic well-being. In this sense, it is considered important to view Informational Sustainability as a fourth dimension for the achievement of Sustainable Development. Validating the offer to introduce the studies, services and actions of libraries, as a means of raising awareness, raising awareness and mobilizing the information society on sustainable practices, objectives and goals. Thus, it is emphasized that introducing Informational Sustainability in Librarianship is to intensify the social characteristics of the area, within a contemporary and urgent perspective of society's informational needs, in which each day it needs to have access to necessary and important information for humanity's well-being. And so, in line with the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, contributing so that all people can enjoy sustainable information in the search for a dignified, plural, inclusive, egalitarian and sustainable life in the present, as well as enabling that the next generation can also enjoy these benefits and resources.
Abstract
INFORMATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY IN LIBRARIES: ENHANCING MORE INCLUSIVE, EGALITARIAN AND SUSTAINABLE SERVICES
For many people, libraries are known as institutions that only promote the safekeeping, conservation and organization of knowledge. However, it is known that libraries have a wide range of services, with the potential for transformation, social change and socialization of knowledge for the community in which it operates. In this context, the question is: how to reverberate the potential of library services to society? How to make the library more inclusive, egalitarian and sustainable? And how can the community be made aware of the importance of the library for the growth, strengthening and transformation of society? In this perspective, this summary aims to defend the proposal to discuss actions and services that can be implemented and performed by libraries in line with the concept of Information Sustainability (IS). According to Nolin (2010), SI is scored in two distinct missions for the area of informational activity: the first is called 'information for sustainable development', aiming to support the communicative aspects of integration, in line with the ambitions of Global Objectives, seeking to increase the viability of the sustainable development project; and the second called ‘sustainable information development’, as part of a larger project to connect and provide access to sustainable technology. Reinforcing, Geraldo and Pinto (2021), explain that the IS refers to information resources that facilitate integration, awareness and participation in global objectives and in strengthening the process of transforming society according to the dimensions of sustainable development. Thus, it is worth noting that the 'Lyon Declaration on access to information and development', created by IFLA (2014), highlights the relevance of providing secure access to information so that society can exercise its civil, political rights, economic, social and cultural rights. The Declaration states and highlights that access to information supports development, empowering people to: exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The Declaration defends free access to information and that libraries have the potential to achieve this objective and, consequently, to Global Sustainable Development Goals. In conclusion, it reinforces the importance of Librarianship to align its services and actions with Global Sustainable Development Goals, given the potential of libraries to offer informational and practical services, actions and projects in the quest to build an informed, sensitized and mobilized society about the need to rethink the relationship with the environment, in a perspective of management and conscious use of natural and human resources. Seeking to offer a sustainable, equitable and inclusive development for the current context and for future generations, based on the concept of Information Sustainability.
References:
Geraldo, G., & Pinto, M. (2021). Aspectos epistemológicos da ciência da informação e a construção conceitual da sustentabilidade informacional. In C. Barbalho, D. Inomata & T. Fernandes, Sustentabilidade Informacional em Ecossistemas de Conhecimentos (1st ed., pp. 24-38). Manaus: Edua.
IFLA. Declaração de Lyon sobre o Acesso à Informação e Desenvolvimento. 2014.
NOLIN, J. Sustainable information and information science. Information Research, [s. l.], v. 15, n. 2, 2010.
Informational sustainability in libraries: enhancing more inclusive, egalitarian and sustainable services
INFORMATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY IN LIBRARIES: ENHANCING MORE INCLUSIVE, EGALITARIAN AND SUSTAINABLE SERVICES
For many people, libraries are known as institutions that only promote the safekeeping, conservation and organization of knowledge. However, it is known that libraries have a wide range of services, with the potential for transformation, social change and socialization of knowledge for the community in which it operates. In this context, the question is: how to reverberate the potential of library services to society? How to make the library more inclusive, egalitarian and sustainable? And how can the community be made aware of the importance of the library for the growth, strengthening and transformation of society? In this perspective, this summary aims to defend the proposal to discuss actions and services that can be implemented and performed by libraries in line with the concept of Information Sustainability (IS). According to Nolin (2010), SI is scored in two distinct missions for the area of informational activity: the first is called 'information for sustainable development', aiming to support the communicative aspects of integration, in line with the ambitions of Global Objectives, seeking to increase the viability of the sustainable development project; and the second called ‘sustainable information development’, as part of a larger project to connect and provide access to sustainable technology. Reinforcing, Geraldo and Pinto (2021), explain that the IS refers to information resources that facilitate integration, awareness and participation in global objectives and in strengthening the process of transforming society according to the dimensions of sustainable development. Thus, it is worth noting that the 'Lyon Declaration on access to information and development', created by IFLA (2014), highlights the relevance of providing secure access to information so that society can exercise its civil, political rights, economic, social and cultural rights. The Declaration states and highlights that access to information supports development, empowering people to: exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The Declaration defends free access to information and that libraries have the potential to achieve this objective and, consequently, to Global Sustainable Development Goals. In conclusion, it reinforces the importance of Librarianship to align its services and actions with Global Sustainable Development Goals, given the potential of libraries to offer informational and practical services, actions and projects in the quest to build an informed, sensitized and mobilized society about the need to rethink the relationship with the environment, in a perspective of management and conscious use of natural and human resources. Seeking to offer a sustainable, equitable and inclusive development for the current context and for future generations, based on the concept of Information Sustainability.
References:
Geraldo, G., & Pinto, M. (2021). Aspectos epistemológicos da ciência da informação e a construção conceitual da sustentabilidade informacional. In C. Barbalho, D. Inomata & T. Fernandes, Sustentabilidade Informacional em Ecossistemas de Conhecimentos (1st ed., pp. 24-38). Manaus: Edua.
IFLA. Declaração de Lyon sobre o Acesso à Informação e Desenvolvimento. 2014.
NOLIN, J. Sustainable information and information science. Information Research, [s. l.], v. 15, n. 2, 2010.