Indicators for Sustainable Management of Green Libraries: a Qualitative Research

To identify indicators of sustainable management in Iranian libraries to achieve a green library.
In this qualitative research, 12 experts in knowledge and information science and sustainable development were interviewed using purposive and snowball sampling and semi-structured interviews. Data analyzed, coded and categorized using three stage grounded theory.
215 concepts in open coding were grouped in 62 categories: context (with 24 concepst and 9 categories), causes (with 43 concepts and 13 categories), interferences (with 19 concepts and 10 categories), strategies (with 102 concepts and 17 categories) and outcomes (with 27 concepts and 14 categories).
Library management needs to be moved toward sustainable management model- a model which focuses on green libraries regarding sustainable indicators.