Earth Day

Greetings,

Today, April 22nd is Earth Day. Earth Day is one of those official unofficial holidays where everyone is supposed to think about the world we live in and how to take better care of it.

One very small thing that we do here at the library is to reuse all of the interlibrary loan envelopes. Interlibrary Loan, or ILL, is a service that we provide to students that allows us to borrow books for them that we do not own. We borrow this books from libraries all over the United States that own them and are willing to loan them. The library also loans books via this process. (You can find out what books we own, or who owns books we don't have, using a Galileo database called Worldcat. If you find a book we don't have in Worldcat, you can place a request for it. That request will be sent to us and we will attempt to get the book for you. Remember to log in to Galileo via the current Galileo password for this quarter.)

ILL books tend to come in large manilla package envelopes. We try to reuse the ones we receive as much as possible. This is a bit of recycling, and it also saves the college/state a bit of money.

Interested in more about Earth Day? CQPolitics has a nice Earth Day page as part of their website. It includes interactives, articles, and quizzes.

JWF