Sustainability in the Libraries

In an effort to improve the sustainability of the University of Louisville Libraries, we have put together a group to explore sustainable practices and create environmental awareness. The group is currently organizing educational events and looking at consumption trends and recycling practices within the libraries with the aim of creating a baseline to improve upon. This site will keep you abreast of our findings and the improvements to our sustainability. [July 2008]

Initiatives

• Ekstrom Library Recycling Program
• To reduce paper waste, try printing to both sides of the paper. If your office computer isn't hooked up to a duplexing printer, ask OLT to get you networked to one. Duplexing printer locations in Ekstrom (Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader [download]).

Resources

• Peer-Sharing Sessions: Greening the Office: Handout (Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader [download])
  
• Websites

• Treehugger: Go Green
• Consumer Energy Center
• Louisville Waste Management: Know the benefits of recycling
• Louisville Green Guide

Planning Group

• Terri Holtze, Chair
• Andy Clark, Ekstrom Library
• Gail Gilbert, Art Library
• Anna Marie Johnson, Ekstrom Library
• Melissa Laning (ex-officio)
• Tom Owen, University Archives & Research Center
• Elizabeth Smigielski, Kornhauser Health Sciences Library