Leaning into Sustainability at University of Alberta Libraries

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Gerald Beasley
  • Trish Rosseel

• The purpose of this paper is to present a case study that considers the links between cost avoidance, lean design and sustainability in relation to two different library projects at University of Alberta Libraries (UAL) - the design of the Research & Collections Resource Facility and the development of new fee-based library services at UAL’s John W. Scott Health Sciences Library.

• Date created

  2016-04-16

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Fee-based library services
  • Bibliometrics
  • Sustainability
  • Lean design
  • Academic libraries
  • Library buildings

• Type of Item

  Article (Draft / Submitted)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R39883015

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International