Green Libraries

OHIONET Continues its \Green\ Efforts

Submitted by evans on April 22, 2010 - 08:51

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Greening the Library - Update

Submitted by Guest on December 22, 2009 - 16:19

We're pleased to announce that the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, one of OHIONET's members, has become the first LEED-certified public library in Ohio.

Please read the full news release here.

Congratulations to Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, and to all of the staff who worked together to achieve this tremendous distinction!

New Board Members, New (Greener) Election Process

Submitted by Guest on December 8, 2009 - 10:28

OHIONET welcomed Ms. Suzette Burlingame (Stark County District Library), Ms. Sheila Campbell (Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Library), and Mr. Douglas Kaylor (Sinclair Community College), who are newly elected to the Board of Trustees, and Mr. Don Barlow (Westerville Public Library), who is a newly re-elected Board member at the December Board Meeting last week.

Greening the Library, Starting at OHIONET - Recycling

Submitted by Guest on October 29, 2009 - 13:02

After looking at ways we could reduce our energy consumption and paper use, the OHIONET Green Team started finding opportunities for recycling. Our recycling efforts include:

  • Using recycled paper - We got management buy-in and asked our purchasing agent to switch to recycled paper for all day-to-day printing.

Greening the Library, Starting at OHIONET - Reducing Paper

Submitted by Guest on October 29, 2009 - 13:00

In addition to saving energy, OHIONET has been working to save paper. You may find some of these ideas inspiring in your own efforts.

  • Paperless invoices - OHIONET is now using its accounting software to send electronic invoices to our members. What regular communications can you do electronically to save paper? Electronic reserve, overdue, or recall notices? Making checkout receipts optional in your ILS?

Greening the Library, Starting at OHIONET - Conserving Energy and Resources

Submitted by Guest on October 29, 2009 - 12:59

Inspired by the efforts of our member libraries, OHIONET started a \Green Team\ to try to coordinate efforts to make our office a little more environmentally friendly.

One of the first things we did was an energy audit to find ways we could conserve energy and resources. We found a few simple things to save a lot of energy--maybe these are things your library could try, too!

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