Free Public Transportation!

from campus weekly 9/9/09:

UNCG employees may now ride GTA (Greensboro Transit Authority) and HEAT (Higher Education Area Transit) buses for free with a valid UNCG ID card! Those with questions may email parking@uncg.edu.

Second Green Leak of the Week

Tech Services is aiming for green by:

-- recycling paper through our laser printer (works fine as long as we use uncreased paper);

-- turning off lights in smaller offices when no one is home or when natural light is sufficient to work by;

-- placing book orders electronically;

-- using purchase cards for orders (eliminates cutting paper checks).

Kathy Shore, for the Green Library Group

First Green Leak of the Week - Recycling!

Dear Jackson Library Colleagues!

Finally (I know you've been waiting!) we are starting our series of Green Leaks of the Week coming to you from your friendly neighborhood Green Library Group.

At the staff meeting on  August 20th, I mentioned that there was some confusion about the recycling containers and what goes into each of them.  Here is a link to the OWRR (Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling) web site about recycling: http://www.uncg.edu/rcy/rcySrvc/bins

Your department liaison will be in touch shortly with you about these issues:

1.  Do you have the right labels on your bins?
2.  Do you have enough bins (and the right kind of bins) for your area?  Note: we might need to wait for a budget, before action can happen on this one...
3.  Do you know the difference between office paper (we get $$ for this!), commingle and trash?

Thank you for your help to make the University Libraries (and hence, the Earth) greener.  If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

cheers,

Sarah for the Green Library Group

Meet Joe Williams

Jackson Leaks co-editors Amy Harris and Beth Filar Williams asked some fun questions to our newest member of UNCG libraries, Head of Access Services Joe Williams, so we could all get to know a little more about him.

1) If you could pick 3 countries to visit today where would you go and why?

• France, because they seem to have it all -- architecture, food, mountains, beaches, art, music, and dedication to romance.
• Italy, for the exact same reasons!
• Indonesia - I think I could lead a happy life boating around those thousands of tiny islands, eating in open air markets, taking holidays in Jakarta, and swimming in that amazing, electric blue water. I've been trying to convince my wife and kids of that for years, but they're not going for it.

2) Who would play you in a movie about your life?

Ben Stiller.

3) What would be your 3 main rules if you ran your own country?


Free public transportation, free health care, and free coffee!

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And for some more serious getting to know Joe check out this podcast interview.

Want to move your family away from a fast-food lifestyle?

Dr. Anne-Marie Scott, one of the coolest professors in one of the coolest depts on campus (Nutrition), is embarking on a project that is, quite frankly, uber-cool.

She is going to spend a year helping a family with school-aged children to convert from a fast-food lifestyle to living as locavores. Anne-Marie isn't into typical diets to lower calorie or fat intake, but she enjoys using local whole foods and is a fan of the Slow Food Movement.

She plans to document the process in her blog and will ask the family members to do the same. This is one of her personal projects. It isn't being funded by the university.

I'm not sure how the family should expect their food bill to change (local foods can be more expensive than others, but cooking from scratch is often cheaper than buying fast food). There will be a moderate time commitment. I'm wishing that my fam fitted the demographic that Anne-Marie is seeking :)

If you're interested in participating in her "Locavore Makeover" or just in reading more, check out Anne-Marie's blog. There was also a recent post on this project in the Greensboro News & Record.

One final encomium - check out this article from the Summer 2009 UNCG Alumni Magazine for a spotlight of anthropology professor Dr. Susan Andreatta and Anne-Marie.

-Happy Friday Reading from Lea!

Creating great visitor experiences : a guide for museums, parks, zoos, gardens, & libraries

Hi all, I have a personal copy of this book in my office, if anyone's interested. It brings retail concepts to bear on libraries. It is a light read - takes a day at most - and insightful, I thought. Creating great visitor experiences : a guide for museums, parks, zoos, gardens, & libraries

Watch and Learn

An informative video made by University of Kansas about treating your library materials right!
University of Kansas Preservation Video