SLI Co-founder, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich's, latest Library Journal column is available now. In Living Our Values Out Loud, she highlights New Canaan Library in New Canaan, CT, an SLCP Member Library, for bringing awareness to the important issue of human suffering in the building material supply chain. Read the full article here.  

The Sustainable Libraries Initiative has been named as a Community Connection and the Sustainable Library Certification Program (SLCP) has been highlighted as a Program Idea for the Sustainable California Libraries Grant. The Sustainable California Libraries grant opportunity is supported in whole or in part by the U.S.

Last week, the ALA Council Committee on Sustainability issued a press release titled, "A Call to Action on Climate Change for Libraries". Within this press release, they included the "Sustainability in Libraries: A Call to Action."

From the ARSL website:

Sustainable Libraries Initiative co-founder, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich's latest Sustainability column in Library Journal details strategies that libraries can take right now to address the looming threat of climate change on our communities.

Read the article here.

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. 

Press Release

Purchase through ALA's Book Store.

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.