SUSTAINABILITY &

ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY
CASE STUDY: BRITISH
LIBRARY
SUBMITTE BY: MD ABDUL MUKIT
BANNER ID: B01672303
DATE OF SUBMISSION: 24th April
 Contents
• Sustainability and its relevancy
• Key Drivers of Sustainability
• Organization strategy and Sustainability in it
01
• UN SDGs and its importance
• 02 status of British Library in terms of Sustainability
Current
initiatives
•
03
Challenges faced by British library to practice sustainability
• 04
Integration and alignment of UN SDGs with British Library
• SWOT
•
05
Future outlook
• 06
Conclusion
• References
07
Sustainability
and its relevance
Change this definition,

Sustainability in education means building green

buildings, minimizing use of carbon and initiate eco-
friendly practices to meet triple bottom line
(Michelsen and Fischer,2017)
 Organization strategy refers to long-term
goals of business to support business

Organizational activities by efficient allocation of

resources that require less cost and

strategy and provide more benefits (Law,2016)

Sustainability

Sustainability in organization strategy

refers to aim of reducing social and
environment impact of business activities
and create a eco-friendly strategy to
achieve this purpose (De Lange et al.,2012).
 UN SDGs and its importance
UN framework of 17 SDGs goals provide development measures to form a sustainable world
that is important for survival.

UN aims to put world into better place by eradicating poverty, fighting hunger, inculcating
education among women and protecting earth by minimizing carbon.
The importance of UN SDGs goals lies in a purpose of providing equal prosperity, resources
and justice to world (United Nations,2023)
 To conserve resources:
British library saves
physical space and storage
by digitalization to save
resources

To minimize use of carbon:

British library aims to
Key drivers of minimize carbon by recycling

sustainability in British plastics and glass used in

operations
Library
Energy efficient measures:
British Library uses energy
saving measures wit alternative
energy sources (British
Library,2023)
Current status of British library in terms of
sustainability initiatives
British library meets UN SDGs goals 7,9 ,11,12, 13,17. Currently it
aims to develop eco-friendly infrastructures and green buildings to
foster community-friendly environment.

British library also saves energy and waste production by recycling the
plastics. Sales

it also aims to fight climate action with waste minimization and green
electricity measures by ignoring non-renewable sources.
 Difficulty in changing
culture and mindset of
community to embrace
carbon-friendly practices

Supply chain constraints

occurred to identify
Challenges faced by environment-friendly resources
for infrastructure
British library to
practice sustainability
Budget constraints due to
funding challenges also occur.
 INTEGRETION AND ALLIGNMENT
OF BRITISH LIBRARY WITH UN
SDGS

Goal 7: Goal 9: Goal 11:

The goal of using clean British library aims to Goal of British library to
energy sources aligns preserve physical space by reduce environment
with moving to digitalization. It impact on urban cities by
UN SDGs goal of aligns with UN goal 9 of minimizing waste aligns
efficient energy encouraging innovation. with UN goal of building
sources. urban development
 INTEGRETION AND ALLIGNMENT
OF BRITISH LIBRARY WITH UN
SDGS

Goal 13: Goal 17

Goal 12:
British library aims to fight British Library collaborates
The goal of recycling of
against climate disasters by with fund raisers,
waste by British library
introducing green buildings government agencies and
aligns with UN SDGs
that aligns with UN SDGs community workers to align
goal of promoting
goal of combating climate SDGs goal of partnership
responsible
challenges. with stakeholders (Pennock
consumption of
et al.,2014)
resources.
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S W O T
Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

• Historical prestige. • Constraints of • Loss of traditional

• Digital sources budget • Community infrastructure due to
• Educational • challenging engagement use of digital
importance mindset of • Modern methods resources.
• comprehensive community of saving energy • Ethical challenges of
collection of • Digital • Diversification of copyrights.
resources preservation resources • Strict regulations by
challenge government.
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Opportunity light color

British library has opportunity to reshape its traditional mode by embedding technology resources.

In future, initiatives of UN SDGs will transform the library with environment-friendly resources
that will influence people, society and ecosystem.

However, cultural preservation and prestige traditional style of library should be kept the same by
practicing UN SDGs.
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 Conclusion
British library meets UN goals of building innovative structure, combating
climate challenges with waste minimization.
The library is also in pa rtnership with stakeholders to eliminate budget
constraints .
It will fa ce cha lle nge s to preserve traditional structure of library while
practicing susta ina ble de velopment goals.

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 Conclusion

British library meets It will face challenges to

The library is also in
UN goals of building preserve traditional
partnership with
innovative structure, structure of library
stakeholders to
combating climate while practicing
eliminate budget
challenges with waste sustainable development
constraints.
minimization. goals.
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(Accessed: 12 October 2023).

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