Programme officer (Incharge,
Concept of Green Libraries is gradually is attracting library administrators world over and its need and efforts to develop green libraries are on rise. This is becoming a kind of movement now and has started gaining momentum in India as well though it initially started with USA, UK and Canada who are leading countries to adopt the concept. The present paper focuses on the state of affairs about green libraries development in India and other developing countries. LEED is the major performance standard in countries abroad and IGBC is an Indian standard to measure the performance. The attempt is made to understand the concept, role of various associations and training available on green libraries, existing standards to measure the performance and pros and cons of the green libraries in general.
