ENSULIB Announces the 10th IFLA Green Library Award 2025 Shortlist

IFLA’s Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section (ENSULIB) is pleased to announce the 10th IFLA Green Library Award 2025 Shortlist. The IFLA Green Library Award was established in 2016 by ENSULIB (SIG) and proudly sponsored by De Gruyter Brill Publishing. We deeply appreciate their support over the year.  Library Juice Academy recently join De Gruyter as a sponsor the award as well – many thanks!

The IFLA Green Library Award 2025 nominated shortlist in two categories is listed alphabetically by country below. The winners of the IFLA Green Library Award 2025 in the categories “Best Green Library/Grand-Scale Project”, “Best Green Library Project” and “Special Recognition”, which will be given to a project that was carried out with minimal resources but has a large impact, will be announced in August 2025.

Shortlist “Best Green Library/Grand-Scale Project”

• China, Shenzhen: Shenzhen Yantian Library, “The Growth Library: Reading Without Borders,Growth With Sustainability”
• France, Paris: James Baldwin Library, “James Baldwin Library: SDGs Inside a Sustainable Project”
• USA, Nashville: Nashville Public Library, Donelson Branch, “Retro Roots, Green Future: A Midcentury Marvel in Sustainability”

Shortlist “Best Green Library Project”

• Croatia, Karlovac: Public library “Ivan Goran Kovačić” Karlovac, “Green Festival – Karlovac Green Story”
• France, Lyon: Maison de l’Environnement, “Lire pour Agir” : The Prize of the Socioecological Transition Book
• Portugal, Loule: Manuel Viegas Guerreiro Foundation, “Our Common Home, heart of the Little Naturalists of Querença”
• Thailand, Bangkok: Thammasat University Library, “From Waste to Wealth: Green Library Through Circular Economy”

ENSULIB, May 2025