<p><span style=\"background: white; line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Environment protection is one of the major challenges faced by the world community. The Indian Government is initiating steps in the direction of environmental protection as a major task with the establishment of Department of Environment in the Central Government in November 1980.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"background: white; line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background: white; line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Academic organization like UGC, IITs, IIMs etc. also have accepted the importance of environment protection in academics and have introduced environment studies in their syllabi. Moreover, the focus is also levied on environmentally sustainable research and teaching at higher education. At such a juncture, the onus is on now depends on academic libraries to take up the initiative and become an active and contributing partner in environment friendly as well as innovative teaching and research activities.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"background: white; line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">The green libraries movement has emerged in the 1990s and gained popularity in the library profession around 2003. However it is in very primary stage in India. But now a day there is urgent need to bring attitudinal change towards ecofriendly practice. </span><span style=\"line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">The present paper tries to </span><span style=\"line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">focus on information about the green libraries, their need, issues, advantages, some important aspects and techniques that can be adopted by libraries to become green, and suggestions </span><span style=\"line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">to create sustainable environmental friendly libraries. </span><span style=\"line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Brining environmental awareness in libraries doesn&rsquo;t necessarily require huge financial effort or a big budget. Green Library is not a one man show, i.e. librarians but the management, other staff and users also have to take initiative and participate actively. Librarians should act as role models for sustainability by providing suitable and relevant information related to green issues and concerns. They should also encourage and support the movement of green libraries and help communities to understand green and sustainable concepts.</span></p>
<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 200%; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">Key Wards: </span></strong><span style=\"line-height: 200%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Green library, eco-</span><span style=\"line-height: 200%; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">friendly library, Academic Library, Green Building</span></p>
 