ARA Environmental Sustainability Group Case Studies
The theme of our 2024 Conference, starting today, is ‘Climate and Crisis: Tackling It Together’ and over the next three days we hope to address the major crises and challenges facing our communities and our profession, learning from our community and building stronger responses, together. The Climate Crisis is the challenge of an era with the responsibility to take action falling upon us all. Our profession must respond, learn from best practice and find new ways to contribute to the global effort. Our work faces other crises not least funding and resourcing challenges. We are better tackling this together too, and we want the conference to be a catalyst for this.
The ARA Environmental Sustainability Group will be presenting at the conference and have helped to shape the programme. The purpose of this group is to advocate for environmental sustainability in the record-keeping sector and to provide the tools and resources to help members enact this professional duty to the environment. A duty that is outlined in the ARA code of ethics, ‘Insofar as it is within their power to do so, members [of the ARA] should minimise the adverse effects of their work on the environment’.
Launched today are the first in a collection of case studies designed to help inform the sector on a number of topics: Built environment, Collecting environmental records, Strategic management, Knowledge sharing and Digital Preservation.
You can find all the case studies here: https://www.archives.org.uk/environment-case-studies
A small selection is shown below:
