Le declinazioni della sostenibilità in biblioteca

Abstract

Through a content analysis of 154 library strategic plans, this study examines and classifies the various interpretations of the concept of sustainability. Organizational and financial sustainability is the most-cited, followed by environmental sustainability, by sustainability related to collection development and management and then by social sustainability. Almost half of the libraries adopted a narrow view of sustainability, making explicit reference only to one type of interpretation. Instead, the other documents reveal the awareness that sustainability is a broad and transversal concept, reconnectable to every aspect of contemporary libraries and perfectly in line with their strategic values.