ROOTS Library Leadership Summit: Re-imagining Organizational Operations Toward Sustainability

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The American Library Association’s Sustainability Round Table (SustainRT) is planning a virtual event to be held on August 6th, 2025 to connect and coordinate with other organizations worldwide who work to promote sustainability in libraries. 

We hope to organize this summit every 4-5 years to connect and align our work. It will be a chance to share resources, identify points of collaboration, and celebrate wins. We are also excited to bring in keynote speaker Sarah Jaquette Ray, who can serve as an inspiring motivator for leaders in library sustainability.

Presenter:

Sarah Jaquette Ray

Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray works at the intersection of social justice and climate emotions in service of climate justice, especially in Gen Z. She is the author of two books, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture (Arizona, 2013), on the political emotion of disgust in environmental thought, and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet (California, 2020), an existential toolkit for the climate generation. Her most recent edited book brings together 30 scholars, activists, teachers, and students who explore climate emotions in higher-ed teaching and learning-- The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World came out in 2024. Ray is interviewed and has published widely on emotions and climate justice in the LA Times, Scientific American, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Edge Effects, KCET, and Zocalo Public Square. Ray is also a certified mindfulness teacher through the UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center.

CALL Training Partner for this Event: American Library Association’s Sustainability Round Table (SustainRT)