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June Monthly Sustainability Discussion Thread

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Jun 24, 2024 08:40 AM
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Hi all! We're back with another monthly discussion of questions and topics related to sustainability in your library, brought to you by the Publicity and Outreach Committee. Our discussion topic for this month is: Does your work have a seed library? If so, what impact have you noticed in your community? ...

Kent County Public Library awarded the 2024 Citation for Wellness in the Workplace

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Jun 21, 2024 09:01 AM
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Kent County Public Library is being celebrated for its commitment to wellness as a strategic priority, earning the 2024 Citation for Wellness in the Workplace. Over the past three years, the Kent County Public Library has increased their staff levels, ensured increasing compensation, and prioritized ...

Join us at ALA (and virtually) for Let's Get Real about Climate Impacts to Library Services

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Jun 20, 2024 01:32 PM
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We work in libraries with policies that reflect our commitment to professional standards and ethics. We work in communities that sometimes require flexibility and innovation when the reality of our environments and our community needs challenge those policies. Let's learn from each other about ways we ...

SustainRT Virtual Membership Meeting

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Jun 06, 2024 04:53 PM
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Are you a SustainRT member who can't make it to our membership meeting at ALA Annual? Please join us to see what SustainRT has been working on since January and wish our outgoing steering committee members well! ------------------------------ Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Librarian University of Cincinnati ...

SustainRT Events at ALA Annual

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Jun 03, 2024 08:00 AM
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Are you going to ALA Annual in San Diego? Join us for our SustainRT events and meetings! SustainRT Virtual Membership Meeting, Thursday 6/20, 1:00-2:00pm ET, register here SustainRT Coordinator’s Program - Let's Get Real: Climate Impacts to Library Services, Sunday 6/30, 11:00-12:30pm PT, San Diego ...

Listen to the Call Number Podcast: Sustainability Strategies

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy May 23, 2024 07:04 AM
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Episode 95 of American Libraries' Call Number podcast series highlights ways libraries are practicing and promoting sustainability. The episode includes a visit to Chicago Public Library’s Sulzer Regional branch and its monthly repair café, a discussion of disaster planning, and sustainability tips ...

Read the Spring 2024 SustainRT Newsletter

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy May 16, 2024 07:07 AM
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The latest issue of the SustainRT newsletter is out! Give it a read for updates on member meetings, ALA annual conference happenings, new resources and events, and more. ------------------------------ Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Librarian University of Cincinnati Main Campus - Cincinnati, OH She/Her/Hers ...

May Monthly Sustainability Discussion Thread

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy May 14, 2024 01:10 PM
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Hi all! We're back with another monthly discussion of questions and topics related to sustainability in your library, brought to you by the Publicity and Outreach Committee. Our discussion topic for this month is: Spring and summer often come with extreme weather conditions such as wildfires, hurricanes, ...

Sustainability Roundtable and The Resilient Activist

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy May 13, 2024 08:58 AM
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The Sustainability Roundtable and The Resilient Activist continue our Climate Café gatherings on May 20, 6-7:30 pm Central. Please join us if you …would appreciate being in a supportive space to explore how climate change and ecological destruction make you feel. …are a librarian who would like to ...

Climate Cafe Collaboration with Libraries

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy May 10, 2024 09:00 AM
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Join The Resilient Activist’s Climate Café Team along with Jenny Garmon with the American Library Association’s Sustainability Roundtable for an information exchange on 5/17/2024 at 10:30am CST to explore how librarians could host Climate Café "Watch Parties" with Zoom in their local libraries. We’ll ...

Books and Beyond: How Librarians Can Address Climate Emotions

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 23, 2024 08:44 AM
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Books and Beyond: How Librarians Can Address Climate Emotions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for an interactive webinar with the Climate Mental Health Network to learn about the mental health impacts ...

Climate Café Gatherings - April 29

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 17, 2024 09:26 AM
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The American Library Association’s Sustainability Roundtable is partnering with The Resilient Activist for a pilot project - Climate Café Gatherings! Climate Café Gatherings are community-based supportive gatherings to nurture and enhance the emotional well-being of those who are experiencing the ...

April Monthly Sustainability Discussion Thread

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 16, 2024 09:19 AM
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Hi all! We're back with another monthly discussion of questions and topics related to sustainability in your library, brought to you by the Publicity and Outreach Committee. Our discussion topic for this month is: Now that sustainability has been an ALA core value for a few years, what do you see ...

SustainRT is collecting tote bags at our membership meeting at ALA Annual

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 15, 2024 09:42 AM
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SustainRT is collecting tote bags at our membership meeting at ALA Annual. Please bring your old tote bags that you no longer use (most of us probably have a few of these lying around), or your tote bag from this conference, if you are not going to use it at home, to the SustainRT membership meeting. ...

Arlington Public Library Event Invitation - Farm Sanctuary: Building the Good

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 15, 2024 07:00 AM
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Join us as Gene Baur, founder of Farm Sanctuary, discusses his work to rescue animals from factory farms and the importance of humane food education programs. Creating an equitable, compassionate food system requires more than fighting to end factory farming. Farm Sanctuary is working across movements ...

ACRL IS VEC Lightning Round: Applied AI in Information Literacy Instruction

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 05, 2024 02:28 PM
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Have you begun using artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom or to develop lesson plans or assignments? Recent developments in AI technology have brought new challenges and opportunities to the field of library instruction. This session will feature four lighting talk presentations about innovations ...

15th Annual TrashedArt Contest at the Mercer County Library System

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 04, 2024 12:37 PM
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The 15th Annual TrashedArt Contest at the Mercer County Library System celebrates Earth Day by encouraging patrons to turn ordinary trash into extraordinary art! The Mercer County Library System in New Jersey is hosting their 15th Annual TrashedArt Contest. The Contest celebrates Earth Day by encouraging ...

A Transatlantic Tale of Two Seed Libraries

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 04, 2024 08:18 AM
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SustainRT's Education and Programming Committee welcomes Saša Vidmar and Ana Kosič from France Bevk Public Library in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and Teresa Bolton, from Kansas City Public Library, Missouri, USA, to share with us two innovative and inspiring seed libraries and how they are serving their communities. ...

Annual Top 10 Sustainability Themed Books for Children

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 02, 2024 09:39 AM
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SustainRT's Sustainability Resources Committee curates an annual list of 10 notable children’s books on nature, conservation, and communities that reflect SustainRT’s mission “to exchange ideas and opportunities regarding sustainability in order to move toward a more equitable, healthy, and economically ...

Call for Newsletter Items

Posted By Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy Apr 01, 2024 02:03 PM
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SustainRT's spring newsletter is coming out April 12, 2024! Please send us any news, events, resources, etc., that you would like to share with the SustainRT community. The deadline for submissions is April 8, 2024. Send submissions via SustainRT's Outreach Request Form ------------------------------ ...

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