RLUK DSF | Sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Channel: ResearchLibrariesUK
Date: 15/11/2023

RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues from across the information, research, cultural and heritage communities, and third and commercial sectors, to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services, and audiences. 

The series aims to promote cross-sector discussion and debate, to enable knowledge exchange, and inspire collaborative endeavour across sectors and communities, for the benefit of RLUK members and the wider research and information management communities. More information can be found at https://www.rluk.ac.uk/dsf/
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This session focused on issues of Sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are ‘a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.‘

The session highlighted the role of information systems and services in addressing global challenges and sustainable development. It also shared the experience of Stellenbosch University library in South Africa in supporting SDGs and how the library can contribute to SDG Research. It will also include the role of SUNScholar, Stellenbosch’s institutional repository in improving the findability of SDG related research.

Speakers were Professor Gobinda Chowdhury, Professor of Information Science in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde and Mimi Seyffert-Wirth, Director for Scholarly Communication and Marketing at Stellenbosch University.