IFLA 2016 in Ohio in August – call for proposals!

IFLA-2016-LogoConsider submitting your sustainable themed poster or paper for the IFLA conference 13–19 August 2016, Columbus, Ohio. There are various options:

IT Energy Savings for Libraries Webinar: recording, slides and notes

Screen Shot 2016-01-07 at 8.50.06 AMIf you missed the SustainRT  webinar on Thursday, December 17, 2015  –  IT Energy Savings for Libraries: Identifying and Understanding Opportunities to Reduce Costs”  with special guest, Mike Walker from EPA’s Energy Star program, you are in luck! The video RECORDING, Mike’s powerpoint  SLIDES and CHAT QUESTIONS he answered after the fact (since we ran out of time) are all available!  Very useful information to apply in your library, and Mike is open to doing other webinars for ALA or library consortiums, regional libraries, etc. (His contact info is on the slides and in the chat question answers document)

New Year, New Start

So much sustainable/environment/green movements, education and sharing of knowledge has happened in the library arena since I began this blog over 7 years ago. I began this blog to both personally collect and share ideas, practices, tools, and techniques relating to creating more sustainable (often focusing on the environmental aspect)  libraries and the communities they serve. Now we have a abundance of options to share and learn and build sustainable libraries including hundreds of books, articles, films,  presentations, webinars, blogs, a resolution on sustainable libraries and even a round table in ALA.   I’m not ready to quit this blog yet though, but I will try to post on a more routine basis. More –  and a variety of more voices –  still need to be heard, more information open and accessible, with more opportunities for education  to build sustainable communities. I will post a few times a month, most likely on important initiatives, case study examples of interesting sustainable ideas as well as links to webinars and resources freely available.

For this post, think about one thing in 2016 to do/learn/share that is in support of building sustainable libraries (read a book, share a skill, volunteer your time, or … maybe run for ALA SustainRT office??)