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Pursuing sustainable futures through LAMs
Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition, Routledge, London, Libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs); Scandinavian societies; Sustainability.(2022)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003188834-19
Аннотация
This chapter considers the ways libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) are meeting the challenges that the Scandinavian societies face in the twenty-first century and the roles the institutions play in pursuing sustainable futures. The following two sections illuminate how the Scandinavian LAM institutions respond and contribute to central parts of the sustainability agenda. The focus in the first section is on how the institutions are advancing environmental respon-sibility, and the second section looks at how they promote social equity related to diversity and equality. The two sections offer typologies that broadly group LAMs' activities in the related areas. A final section on the LAM institutions as part of the Nordic model provides a reflective perspective on the institutions as agents working on supporting sustainable futures. This chapter does not address economic sustainability directly. This is because the education-, innovation-, and inclusion-related activities and work being done associated with environ-mental and social sustainability provide support for economic sustainability and are more central to the role of the LAMs.
