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1 The Greening of McKendree Your Hosts: Dr. Jim Feher Prof. Bill Harroff

2 Why Conserve? 30,000 reams,15 million sheets, amount in the United States every five minutes One ton of recycled office paper saves: 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space 60 pounds of air pollutants 7,000 gallons of water 2.75 tons of CO2 9 barrels of oil

3 Many Ways to Save! Electronic Resources – eBooks – E-Reserves – Email content – Blackboard content storage Printing at the Printshop with bookstore purchase Print slides in handout format Print extra slides per page

4 Printing at the Printshop Bundle course documents or large projects Send them to the Printshop Pay yourself or have content sent to bookstore, where students can purchase items. lance.mckendree.edu/~jdf/mck/Coursepack_ Adoption_Form.xls For more information, contact: Printshop - Tim Mullins tmullins@mckendree.edu Bookstore - Rebecca Mathews rbmathews@mckendree.edu

5 Print Wisely You can limit printing to a selection You can print more than one page per sheet You can print slides in handout format NOTE: Dialog boxes will vary in appearance depending upon the printer driver your computer or application uses. But they should be similar in nature and functionality.

6 Printing Dialog Box NOTE: Properties, Options, Selection

7 Printing Selection

8 More than one page per sheet

9 Printing Slides in Handout Format

10 Greening the Library: E-Reserves Material available to students 24/7 Easily placed in Blackboard & can track students’ use Copyright compliant No need to print copies for each student Contact Debbie Houk x6951 djhouk@mckendree.edudjhouk@mckendree.edu

11 Use Holman (electronic) Library

12 Holman Library Conservation Efforts Managing the collection for the first time Cleaning! Removing harmful books Clearing top row of books Recycling books & newspapers Emphasizing zero growth of paper collections

13 Database Spotlight: GreenFile Offers a high-quality collection of scholarly, government and general- interest titles with content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing & abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

14 eBook Collections Credo Reference ebrary Library Center Gale Reference Historical Statistics of the U.S. Oxford Reference Collection Sage E-Reference Project Muse (secure archive) Free eBooks

15 Library Grants Received Digitize the early books & documents related to McKendree’s history Grant to purchase books about the recent environmental impact on Jamaica & Japan

16 Green Library Organizations IRRT International Sustainable Library Development Interest Group Serves as a clearinghouse of sustainable community-based library projects in developing areas of the world.IRRT International Sustainable Library Development Interest Group SRRT Task Force on the Environment (TFOE) Created in 1989 by the Social Responsibilities Round Table to promote awareness for environmental issues within the American Library Association.SRRT Task Force on the Environment (TFOE)

17 Learn more… Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education http://www.aashe.org/index.php http://www.aashe.org/index.php Green Options http://greenoptions.com/tag/ higher-education http://greenoptions.com/tag/ higher-education

18 New Ideas to Affect Change Let’s Get an Environmental Grant Green discussion board started Environmental Club Other suggestions …?


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