GREEN LIBRARY, DISASTER AND ENVRIONMENTAL ISSUESâ€
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Abstract:- World focus on current issues in 21st century in which climate change, ozone layer depletion, global warming like issues comes in focus related to environment. For these current issues library also take imitative to inspire people to work and give contribution in environmental. Library is mirror of educational institute so it change mind of student, teacher and society about environmental issue and make awareness in societies. Green library is designed as minimize negative impact on the natural environment and maximum indoor environmental quality. It is part of larger green building movement also known as sustainable libraries. In many view library having a unique role in green library movement due to possible and pedagogical nature. This library design real cost saving in energy consumption. Green building use of energy water and other resources, use renewable energy like solar. Pollution and waste, reduction measures and usability of reuse and recycling. ‘A building room or organization that has collection especially of books for people to read or borrow usually without payment is known as library.’ Al Qurawiyyin library was founded in 859 by fatimal Al-Fihri and it is oldest working library of world. In India Nalanda university Bihar established in 300-850AD having good collection manuscripts in library. In modern period first college library was established in West Bengal in 1839.In the word Singapore library, Seattle central university library is example of green library. In India Anna centenary library, Karnataka university library, Madras university library and Mumbai university library are green libraries. A disaster is a sudden, cataclysmic event that seriously disturbs the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that is beyond the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources. Disaster is a multidimensional phenomenon which come along with many dimensions such as social economic materials psychological or social unlikely to be one among some of these going in a specific direction. Often the number of human lives lost is an important Criterion for defining a disaster
Keywords:- Green library, Renewable energy, Climate change, Sustainable library and disaster etc.
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