Hi Law-Libbers,
CRIV received a great idea from the library staff at Fredrikson and
Byron, P.A., in Minneapolis. The library director there, Rebekah
Anderson, held a brainstorming session with the staff to think about
ways the library could 'go green' to support the firm's green
initiative. The group came up with the idea of contacting CRIV to see
if we might help develop and promote some 'best practices' with legal
information publishers and vendors. CRIV unanimously agreed that
this was a perfect match for our charge and we'd like to develop a
green best practices document to distribute to libraries and
vendor/publishers. We need your ideas. How could information
providers improve their carbon footprint? How might they support
sustainable practices? Are you adopting environmentally friendly
practices in your library? Please share your ideas with us by
responding via e-mail to tracy.thompson@yale.edu.
To get your creative juices flowing here are some of the ideas
generated during the Fredrikson and Byron session:
* Reduce packaging whenever possible; use recycled packaging material
* Reduce the distribution of paper brochures and catalogs
* provide e-mail links instead
* ask staff of a particular library if they'd prefer to share
a set of brochures and catalogs, rather than distributing a full set
to each staff member
* Provide libraries an opt-out option for unsolicited mailings
* Provide donations to charity on behalf of customers, rather
than cheap, gimmicky giveaways
* Provide preferred pricing to customers to encourage electronic
formats over print
We look forward to hearing from you!
Cheers,
Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki, Chair
Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV)
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Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki, Executive Director
New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)
55 Main St.
Keene, New Hampshire 03431
www.nellco.org
603-357-3385 (voice)
603-357-2075 (fax)
tracy.thompson@yale.edu
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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