Sustainable Library Programs for Every Kind of Library

Sustainable Library Programs for Every Kind of Library - Recorded February 18, 2025

Presented by:

Hazel Onsrud, Adult Services Librarian at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, ME
Kate Moss, Senior Librarian, NYSDEC Research Library, Albany, NY
Margaret Woodruff, Director at the Charlotte Library in Charlotte, VT

Learn how library programming can help raise sustainability awareness in your library and community. Whether your library is small or large, rural or urban, public or otherwise (such as Kate Moss's library at the New York Department of Environmental Conservation!), you'll find some inspiring ideas and good practice. Hazel Onsrud, Adult Services Librarian at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, ME; Kate Moss, Senior Librarian, NYSDEC Research Library; and Margaret Woodruff, Director at the Charlotte Library in Charlotte, VT; bring their collective enthusiasm and know-how to this SLI webinar.

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Other links and resources mentioned during webinar:

Ecology Book Clubs:

https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/11764461 

https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/12444023

Climate Crew: https://www.climatecrew.org/ 

NOAA - Weather Reporter: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/dyw-weather-reporter.html

https://www.merrymeetingfoodcouncil.org/know-your-veggies

Seed Library Network: https://www.seedlibrarynetwork.org/

https://slowfoodusa.org/

https://www.communityplate.me/

Curtis Memorial Library - Library of Things: https://curtislibrary.com/library-of-things/

https://www.shareable.net/library-of-things-toolkit/

https://snaped.fns.usda.gov/

https://extension.umaine.edu/

Citizen Science: https://scistarter.org/library

https://www.ayanaelizabeth.com/writing

Films:      

https://www.bullfrogfilms.com/ 

https://www.bravenewfilms.org/

https://www.filmsforaction.org/ 

Yale Climate Connections: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/solutions/