December Newsletter Slide
Library Leaders of the World Unite!
Ready to lead the way to a more sustainable future for your library? How about for your community? 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, the major product of the SLI, focuses your leadership to enable your library, and ultimately your community, to become more environmentally sound, socially equitable and economically feasible.
News
November 11, 2021
🚨 New Book Alert 🚨
Sustainability in libraries is a mindset, not an endpoint. Learn more in this new book edited by SLI co-founder, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, and members of ALA's SustainRT.
Purchase through ALA's Book Store.
In the Spotlight
November 9, 2021
ALA SustainRT Webinar with Lisa Jacobs of Longwood Public Library
The recording of ALA SustainRT's Webinar, "Sustainability, Does It Need To Be Certified?" is now available. Check it out to see Longwood Public Library Director, Lisa Jacobs, discuss the steps her library took both before and during the Sustainable Libraries Initiative Certification process.
In the Spotlight
October 21, 2021
Longwood Public Library featured in ALA SustainRT Webinar
ALA SustainRT is presenting a webinar with Longwood Public Library Director, Lisa Jacobs, who will discuss the steps that her library took to become certified and how the process expanded the sustainable decisions and actions that her library had already taken.
“Sustainability, Does It Need to Be Certified?”
November 4th, 2021
12:00-12:30 PM Eastern
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This panel discussion, featuring leaders from the Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI), will show the organizational transformations that took place at different library settings when their leaders focused on infusing sustainable thinking and actio...
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Earth Hour
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Held every year on the last Saturday of March, Earth Hour engages millions of people in more than 180 countries and territories to switch off their lights to show support for the planet. For more information, visit: https://www.earthhour.org/
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