Libraries shine at UCL Sustainability Awards 2022

UCL marked 10 years since its sustainability team was established in a celebratory event last week. As one of the speakers introducing the Green Impact awards ceremony, the Provost recognised the staff who have been involved in improving sustainability at UCL over that period as ‘champions for change’.

Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science was strongly represented amongst the champions and awards recipients through the multiple Library teams listed below. From next year, LCCOS will be even more broadly represented as Culture teams will also be invited to submit to the Green Impact scheme. This year’s awards include 2 Bronze (vs 3 obtained in 2021), 5 Silver (7 in 2021) and a glittering 11 Gold (7 in 2021).

I would like to pay tribute to the Green Champions at each site who have worked incredibly hard to achieve these results, and to colleagues who have supported our collective achievement. The full list of Library awards for 2022 is:

Bronze

• Bartlett Library
• SSEES Library

Silver

• Main Library
• Science Library
• Senate House UCL Hub [offices]
• Senate House UCL Hub
• UCL Institute of Orthopaedics Library

Gold

• Central Library Services [departmental award]
• Cruciform Hub
• ICH Library, UCL
• Institute of Archaeology Library
• IoE Library
• IoO Library
• Queen Square Library
• Royal Free Medical Library
• School of Pharmacy Library
• UCL Language & Speech Science Library
• Wickford Stores

For the year ahead, we will work to embed sustainability into our next strategy and members of the group have already shared a number of ideas which can hopefully be translated into reality in the near future! To find out more about sustainability in our department, and if you would like to get involved, please visit the Sustainability Committee’s LibNet page.