June 2023 Newsletter Slide
Library Leaders of the World Unite!
The Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI) provides library leaders with a proven path forward to co-create libraries and communities that will thrive in the coming years. The Sustainable Library Certification Program and the SLI community of practice focuses your leadership to enable your library, and ultimately your community, to become more environmentally sound, socially equitable and economically feasible.
News
May 25, 2023
WebJunction and the Sustainable Libraries Initiative team up to support libraries in creating a more sustainable future
WebJunction and the Sustainable Libraries Initiative are working in partnership to better equip and support libraries as they address climate change and the great challenges it brings.
Event Announcements
May 25, 2023
Sustainable Libraries Initiative at the NJLA Conference
The Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI) is excited to be collaborating with the New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) at their upcoming conference to provide a series of events. The SLI is a leading organization that supports libraries as they tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change. This year's NJLA conference offers several opportunities to learn from and engage with the SLI and its co-founders, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich and Matthew Bollerman.
Event Announcements
May 25, 2023
Sustainable Libraries Initiative Meet Up at ALA
Sustainable Libraries Initiative Meet Up at ALA
Event Announcements
Upcoming Events
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World Oceans Day
All Day
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Online Location
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Everyone
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Celebrate!
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Juneteenth
All Day
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Everyone
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Celebrate!
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World Refugee Day
All Day
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Everyone
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Summer Solstice
All Day
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Everyone
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Annual Conference & Exhibition 2023
All Day 6/22 - 6/27
Location:
Physical Location
Audience:
Everyone
Program Type:
Conference
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ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition brings together thousands of librarians and library staff, educators, authors, publishers, friends of libraries, trustees, special guests, and exhibitors. ALA Annual offers educational programming...
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Sustainable Libraries Initiative Meet Up at ALA
9:00am - 11:00am
Location:
Physical Location
Audience:
Everyone
Program Type:
Meetups
Registration Required
Event Details:
Join us in the Presidential Suite from 9:00 am - 11:00 am at the Hilton-Chicago for an in person Sustainable Libraries Initiative Meet Up!
Hilton-Chicago - Presidential Suite
720 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605
We look forward to seein...
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Plastic Free July
All Day
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Online Location
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Everyone
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Celebrate!
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Sign up to this initiative created by the Plastic Free Foundation to join with millions of others in plastic waste reduction strategies. Learn from other participants and help build momentum for actions that reduce pollution.
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SLCP Meet Up - Topic = "Materials"
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Online Location
Audience:
SLI Members
Program Type:
Meetups
Registration Required
Event Details:
Join fellow past, present, and future Sustainable Libraries Certification Program participants as we discuss this months topic - Materials. We will be discussing Section G. Materials. Contact us with any questions.
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Earth Overshoot Day
All Day
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Online Location
Audience:
Everyone
Program Type:
Celebrate!
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This is a day for all of us to reconsider our way of life and usage of natural resources. Our mother Earth can only regenerate resources at a finite rate. But we are utilizing it more than this rate every year. Earth Overshoot Day was introduced to r...