Libraries & Sustainability

Frimley Health Library & Knowledge Services are proud to have signed the Green Libraries Manifesto. We are committed to embedding sustainability in decision-making around resources and facilities, and promoting carbon literacy.

Our plans for the future include:

• Making sustainability a key objective in the library strategy
• Promoting e-Learning for Health's Carbon Literacy for Healthcare programme
• Continuing to reduce paper by using online forms such as library registrations and book/article requests
• Using reusable marketing materials to cut down on waste paper
• Increasing our range of online resources such as eBooks and eJournals
• Reducing our use of plastic e.g. stopping the use of plastic library cards
• Saving energy through motion sensor lighting and shutting down PCs when not in use
• Recycling our withdrawn books, either through books sales, donating to other countries, or using Book Rescuing services

For links to more information and resources, please check our Green Libraries padlet. 

Sustainability in Healthcare monthly updates

Our monthly summary of recent reports, case studies, journal articles and events:

• December 2024

Did you know..?

Using the library to borrow books is sustainability in action! From 2021-23, the number of loans for our top 50 most popular books saved the equivalent of 208 book purchases. That's the equivalent of saving 3 trees...

Please feel free to contact us for more information.