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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.

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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. 

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Juneteenth

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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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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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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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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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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...