Are Libraries involved in sustainability?

Hmmmm, lets see; are libraries involved in sustainability?
Library Journal sponsors a Design Institute each year and in 2008, Phoenix City librarian Toni Garvey (2004 LJ Librarian of the Year) reminded the audience to think of libraries as naturally part of the solution to the problem of global warming. "Libraries are inherently green and alsways have been," she said. "We buy something and thousands of people use it." At the 2008 Design Institute West, her words echoed in the remarks of luncheon speaker Jared Blumenfeld, director of San Francisco Department of the Environment. "We need to show people how green libraries are already," he said. But he took it another step and declared that libraries can be, indeed already are, at the center of the answer to the problem of climate change. "For me, the tag line is, Libraries are the solution," he said, referring to the options provided by the green buildings themselves and the answers people find in them when they get the information they need.
The Ann Arbor District Library sponsored a month-long series of programs and events in May 2002 on sustainaability. Libraries prove to be an ideal environment for exploring such a broad, interconnected topic as sustainability, not only because of the position as a community center and reputation as an educational resource in their own right, but also because of the libraries' mission-driven commitment to reuse and recycle through the materials-lending policies.
Library Journal's Sustainability Institued has held seminars in various areas of the United States for six years.
When I checked the Library Literature and Information Schience Full Text dataabase, I found 46 hits with the terms library and sustainability. One article went so far as to give Andrew Carnegie credit for being sustainable because of his philosophical endeavors. I would not go that far, but libraries and environmental sustainaability are definitely linked and historically libraries have shared in these concerns and solutions.