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Libraries, Archives, and the Climate Emergency - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Vocabulary/tone, particularly in later chapters, is aggressive, confrontational, concrete, and is explicitly intended to be a call to action
      - Argues that librarians must embrace the triple bottom line model of sustainability; describes how to get there; concrete recommendations for how to proceed; lengthy meditation on the interrelatedness of technology, corporate power, and climate preparedness in libraries
  - - - Emphasizes structural, institutional changes to mitigate ecological disruption and enhance the sustainability of library programs; argues for the universal applicability of the Triple Bottom Line model
      - Introduces vocabulary borrowed from the business community.
    - - Narrates the work of the ALA's Task Force on Sustainability
      - Uses the vocabulary of ALA policymaking
    - - Contemplative pieces on diverse topics.
      - Uses vocabulary that would be intelligible to LIS professionals, emphasizes interrelatedness of systemic crises
- - - - Qualitative, introspective, personal narration of her own experiences as a volunteer at an evacuation shelter and recommendations for best practices in such contexts
      - Vocabulary of empathy, sadness, grief; practicality in the face of loss
    - - Vocabulary of reportage, plain statements of fact; expressions of empathy;
      - Academic research-based analysis of how patrons used libraries in the aftermath of a climate disaster
  - - - Vocabulary of reportage, plain statements of fact
      - Actions, not words; describes concrete steps taken by Pottsboro Area Library to adapt to Texas Freeze of 2021
  - - - Vocabulary influenced by discipline of health informatics
      - Describes libraries' responses to natural disasters and offers recommendations for best practices, including integrating disaster preparedness into LIS pedagogy
- - - - Brief outline of climate-change initiatives at international academic libraries
      - Vocabulary is intended to uplift and inspire
    - - Description of sabbatical work fusing mindfulness practices with climate change responses among librarians in the New England area; possible influence of Bendell's Deep Adapatation paper? Open about the possibility of societal collapse
      - Vocabulary of contemplative practices laced with explicit climate grief, anxiety
    - - Describes how librarians can support curricular development on sustainability-adjacent topics in academic settings; calls for creation of specific positions dedicated to dealing with interdisciplinary sustainability-adjacent topics
      - Vocabulary is forthright and direct; calling academic librarians to account for failing to live up to their mandate to meet student/faculty needs
    - - Narrates the formation and growth of the SustainRT and embraces the Triple Bottom Line
      - Vocabulary/tone is inspirational, exuberant, proud
  - - - Contends that the emphasis on green library facilities is shallow and unhelpful; recommends that green programs are just as if not more important
      - Vocabulary of incisive critique
  - - - Literature review of work to date on green librarianship
      - Vocabulary is academic but not neutral; narrative style
- - - - Introduction to larger volume; description of the volume's contents interspersed with contemplative speculations
      - Vocabulary of environmental-humanist researchers
    - - Laments dearth of research in this area; notes lack of preparedness for climate disruption; suggests borrowing insights from related fields of heritage/preservation, LIS, etc.
      - Vocabulary of incisive critique; forthright, direct, and pulls no punches
    - - GIS study of climate hazards posed to archives in the United States co-authored by specialists in geography-adjacent fields
      - Vocabulary is highly technical but direct; explicit about the dangers facing archives; recommendations for further study, academic humility
  - - - Thesis project: description of embedded, qualitative "art camp" project to identify how best to preserve intangible cultural heritage in the present ecological predicament
      - Vocabulary: anthropological-theory-inflected; overtly political
  - - - Chapter in Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: questions archival emphasis on anthropocentric archiving and the need to "save everything" in a time of relinquishment; draws comparison between archival and resource-extractivist/capitalist-acquisitive logics: "curating decay"
      - Vocabulary: highly abstruse, academic, humanistic
  - - - Chapter in Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: Archives must adopt a "palliative practice" emphasizing relinquishment, radical care, and purposeful degrowth in anticipation of biological annihilation
      - Highly abstruse, academic, speculative, contemplative; references Roy Scranton and other popular apocalypticists
  - - - Identifies and names specific Pacific Island archives that will need to be relocated. Second stage of research in 2010 piece
      - Vocabulary: direct and straightforward. Reports the facts bluntly and without mincing words.
    - - Argues archives in low-elevation Pacific island nations will likely need to be relocated as sea-level rise intensifies. Examination of how to identify island nations at risk from sea-level rise, identify potential safe havens for their archival records, and legal/ethical/archival issues that would be raised by such initiatives
      - Vocabulary: alarmed, practical, direct