Nate Hill on the Magic of Libraries as Open-Air Laboratories | Green Masterclass
Across Europe, libraries and community organisations are responding to growing social and environmental challenges, which is transforming their role and day‑to‑day work. To meet these evolving responsibilities, library professionals need new skills and approaches to innovate, collaborate, and lead change.
As part of our project BUDDIES – Connected Libraries & Communities, the Aarhus Public Libraries is organising a series of masterclasses along Europe’s key transitions: Digital, Green, and Social, also corresponding to the focus areas of The Europe Challenge programme. Two presentations from the first masterclass, dedicated to the Green transition, are now publicly available and feature insights from library innovators Nate Hill and Helene Bruhn Schwartzman.
In his presentation, Nate Hill explores how libraries, archives, and communities can nurture culture, growth, sustainability, and well‑being. Drawing on his work with the Metropolitan New York Library Council, he shares practical lessons from transforming a library into an Open‑Air Laboratory.
