Sustainability Round Table Community

SustainRT Board meeting, Orlando 6/25/16

Notes from brainstorming session. The board will sift through, prioritize and figure out how best to move forward. Please be in touch with any other thoughts that popped up for you, or if you want help directly manifest one (or more) of these great ideas!

Brainstorming ideas from annual meeting:
Explore ways to partner with other ALA groups
Hold a “Technical Discussion” at midwinter
Partner with SRRT for annual program in Chicago; speakers ideas:  Robert Bullard, Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben (Rene Tanner and Al Kagan agreed to start the ball rolling)
Recommend (how and to whom?) that library systems create an Office of Sustainability; hire a sustainability librarian
Find more alliances in academia (ex: G3 at U. of Albany Business School)
Contact deans of academic libraries
Analyze current SustainRT members by state
Create a template article that anyone can use to write a piece for their state association publication, etc.
Have a booth at PLA and other sites
Make member gift certificates available
Make student membership free for one year

In attendance:
Eleanor Johnson <eleanorjohnson@unomaha.edu>
Al Kagan <akagan@illinois.edu>
Mary Beth Lock <lockmb@wfu.edu> - incoming Member at Large
Steve Herminghausen sherming@worthingtonlibraries.org
Beth Filar Williams <Beth.Filar-Williams@oregonstate.edu> - co-founder
Victoria Caplan <lbcaplan@ust.hk>
Gary Shaffer <gshaffer@tulsalibrary.org>
Rene Tanner <Rene.Tanner@asu.edu> - incoming Coordinator
Andrea Snyder <asnyder@nassaulibrary.org>
Jodi Shaw <jodishaw@mac.com> - incoming Coordinator Elect
Rebekkah Smith Aldridge <rsmith@midhudson.org> co-founder; outgoing/incoming Member at Large
Madeleine Charney <mcharney@library.umass.edu> - outgoing Coordinator
Bonnie Smith <bonniesmith@ufl.edu> - co-founder
Jen Ferriss <jferris@sals.edu>