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Ms. Madeleine Charney

University of Massachusetts W E B DuBois Library

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University of Massachusetts W E B DuBois Library

Madeleine Charney

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Besides a library degree, I hold an MA is sustainable landscape planning and design. Certified as a Koru Mindfulness teacher, Veriditas labyrinth facilitator and Nature & forest therapy guide, I also received a Permaculture Design Certificate in 1998 with Graham Bell in Scotland. Since 2004 I've been a research services librarian at UMass Amherst Libraries in beautiful western Massachusetts on the unceded territory of the Nonotuck peoples. Liaison for architecture, agriculture, landscape architecture, regional planning and sustainability across the curriculum. Co-founder of ALA's Sustainability Round Table: Libraries Fostering Resilient Communities and Blue Marble Librarians, a Massachusetts-based climate activist community of practice.