Between Cultural Heritage and Digital Challenge The Cologne University and City Library's Commitment to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

As one of the largest academic libraries in Germany, we see it as our responsibility to impart knowledge, promote education, and realise a reliable supply of information. Our core tasks alone make us a sustainable institution and thus a relevant player in the implementation of the UN Agenda Goals. In addition to our own contribution to sustainability, we are committed to a raising awareness of the issue among our more than 63,000 users. This is already happening in a variety of ways: in the area of open access we promote unhindered access to scientific information, we digitise and preserve cultural heritage for future generations, and we provide access to more than eight million titles. We would like to bundle these efforts for sustainability which result directly from our work in a strategy on the topic. This includes a vision for the future as well as a realistic assessment of the limits of a strategy, for example in the context of the CO, balance of the buildings.