"Green libraries and their role in the face of environmental sustainability challenges: a comparative analytical study".

Libraries play a pivotal role not only in disseminating the culture of
environmental sustainability, but also in representing this culture and presenting
actual applied models. Environmental sustainability is an integral part of the
marketing policies of libraries as a central social entity. The least effective steps
for sustainability can have a significant impact on the overall picture of libraries.
With a small funding, the library gets significant returns as a result of marketing.
Achieving environmental awareness does not necessarily require significant effort
or substantial funds, but also effective activities in developing joint relationships
with other institutions, library friend groups, school projects, suppliers and library
beneficiaries.
The problem of the study lies in, the spread of the phenomenon of green
libraries at the level of many developed countries in the Western world, and
activates its components at the level of the Arab world, which calls for
extrapolation of the elements of environmental sustainability and the
requirements of their application to various categories of libraries. Achieving
environmental sustainability is not limited to the library building, but also to
management, equipment, collections, and technical processes, services provided
and marketing.
The study draws its importance from the rules and standards that must be
available to achieve the elements of environmental sustainability in libraries as a
facade of civilization, heritage portfolio, and a model of social development.
Libraries can continuously check the environmental sustainability rules and
provide their components of: structure, building, facades, atmosphere, interior 
environment of ventilation, cooling, heating, lighting and other interior fittings,
along with green ICT and other characteristics that refer to green marketing in the
end to represent a real interface to innovation Civilization.
The study aims at identifying the nature of green libraries, the reasons
and justifications for their transformation, the mechanisms of such transformation,
in addition to surveying of their standards specifications, and comparing the
different models of green libraries in the world.
One of the most prominent results of the study is the presentation of
library institutions as a living voice for the environment, and their role in
representing a model of green and sustainable development. They provide the
same publication for multiple numbers of beneficiaries and preserve them over
time, both effective models of sustainable practices. Raising awareness of these
modern requirements and balancing them with their standards are considered
among the most important skill requirements of contemporary library specialists.
Finally, the study recommends the importance of contemporary libraries
to be flexible to the requirements of the contemporary knowledge society and the
electronic environment. Also, the study recommends, the sustainable and
continuous evaluation of the latest developments in information technology and
the electronic environment. In addition to that supporting and encouraging
creative thinking. Lastly, the necessity of the Arabic library to simulate these
effective models, and applying the standards and specifications of green libraries
mentioned in the study.