the green librarian

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43956790633907113212011-11-10T19:55:00.409-08:00the green librarianEarth and Library Advocacy from Bozeman, MontanaCatherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-29974643075197566302008-06-16T16:46:00.000-07:002008-06-16T16:52:23.542-07:00silence and graduation

It has been a quiet spring here on the green librarian blog. I have to say it has not been for lack of material or issues (I see things in the world every day that give me green hope). I was in the tight grips of my last quarter at the University of Washington iSchool, struggling to reach out to Latinos in the community, and was consumed by a few ultimately unsuccessful employment leads. I

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-38845120828790299852008-03-01T09:57:00.001-08:002008-12-11T16:28:39.219-08:00badge it! --- playing make believe

What a fun little exercise for the second part of Flickr week for the Montana Library 2.0 Challenge! Can you guess what construction site I'm overseeing? This is one of my favorite "professional" pictures, circa 2006. Make your own badge!

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-62558521191897015132008-02-29T12:43:00.000-08:002008-02-29T13:56:14.298-08:00flickr and libraries

Week four of the Montana Library 2.0 Challenge asks participants to explore and discover Flickr, the ever popular photo sharing site.I use Flickr for many purposes, from sharing family photos with distant grandparents, to promoting libraries through the 365 Library Days Project, to creating presentations like the Making of a Day in the Life of a Youth Services Librarian. Flickr has quickly

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-44952709826651863922008-02-17T14:33:00.001-08:002008-02-17T14:46:20.564-08:00RSS Feeds

This is week 3 of the Montana Library 2.0 Challenge (at least it is for me). This week we discuss and explore RSS feeds and readers. Before today I had only used the reader on IE but today I set up Google Reader. So now dear readers you can not only read what I'm blogging about, you can also see what I'm reading about. On the right side of the blog is a What am I reading about? feed as well as a

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-29561400357760215462008-02-13T19:41:00.000-08:002008-02-13T20:06:56.405-08:00plastic bags: the immortality of humankind?

I'm feeling a little anti-plastic-baggy tonight and wanted to share this video and some blogging on the issue:Small-scale film work of Brian Liloia: "The Immortality of Man"Bag it Beagle Style ... from Michael Barton's (my husband) the "Dispersal of Darwin" blog.San Francisco, China, Africa, Ireland... have all taken steps to ban, charge for, and/or discourage plastic bag use. Could Bozeman take

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-71394856441083887962008-02-02T10:05:00.000-08:002008-02-02T10:12:06.901-08:00rebate bribe ?

More Information (Spend your rebate on paying down debt, save your rebate, invest or donate, or use it to support your local economy and promote sustainability.)Just remember "How you spend your money is how you vote every day."

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-84130150287755106152008-01-29T12:13:00.000-08:002008-01-29T12:34:19.941-08:00montana library 2.0 challenge

I accepted the Montana Library 2.0 Challenge weeks ago and today I finally begin. It is a self-paced guide to learning about web 2.0 for Montana librarians. I think there are about 70 librarians signed up and working through the course right now. The second week of the course asks us to set up a blog and use it to post thoughts about what we learn. I've decided to post my reflections here at

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-45040019833369874012008-01-28T10:55:00.000-08:002008-01-28T11:15:33.093-08:00prospera hosts tour of energy-efficient library

From Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Sunday 1/27/2008):Prospera Business Network invites Prospera member businesses and guests to attend a special behind-the-scenes look at the Bozeman Public Library with NorthWestern Energy. Learn about NorthWestern Energy's impact on the energy efficient technologies of the new facility and how this community partnership helped the library garner the first Silver LEED

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-249498797892762352008-01-23T05:33:00.000-08:002008-01-23T06:12:30.940-08:00eating healthy ... for the planet

Like many resolution-making Americans, my new year's resolution has everything to do with food. Unlike many of my food-thinking peers my goal is to eat better for the earth rather than to eat better for myself (though it is a nice side effect).Initially, my resolution was... "Try to eat like a vegetarian." Note it isn't "Be a vegetarian" or "Don't eat meat." I enjoy sausage, burgers, chicken, and

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-84762278601990355892007-11-14T23:50:00.000-08:002007-11-14T23:57:27.620-08:00not to beat my own drum but....

I made the Spanish Language Outreach Trainer Spotlight this week at WebJunction. And if you're a library staff person visit the Montana State Library's website to find out how to sign up for a great FREE workshop led by myself, Kathy Robins (Billings), and Molly Kliss (Missoula). Let me know if you need more information!

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-22710138602863349272007-11-13T11:58:00.000-08:002007-11-13T12:01:12.309-08:00Peg Hileman commemoration at the Bozeman Public Library

Quick update:The Bozeman Public Library is planning a commemoration for Peg on Tuesday, December 11 at noon in the Library’s Community Meeting Room to which the public is invited. If anyone has pictures of Peg and would be willing to share them, please contact Alice Meister at ameister@bozeman.net or (406)582-2401.Thanks.

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-60579515557209687932007-11-10T12:26:00.000-08:002008-12-11T16:28:39.760-08:00Peg Hileman with her Calvin & Hobbes

We at the Bozeman Public Library lost a long time friend and supporter on Monday November 5th. Peg Hileman at the age of 88 passed away in Auburn, Alabama. She had served as the director of the Bozeman library for 33 years and volunteered as a shelver for 20 years after that. When I began working at the Bozeman library in 2004 she was one of our star volunteer shelvers. Her speciality was the

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-9730762703635803662007-10-05T19:15:00.001-07:002008-12-11T16:28:39.900-08:00outsourcing libraries and union breaking

Since Jackson County, Oregon lost library operation funding in April its libraries (many new) have had to close their doors. Now they will reopen in a few weeks with a new boss LSSI (Library Systems and Services). The county will still own the libraries, the property, and the books. LSSI will be in charge of hiring staffing and buying books. They plan to run the libraries on about half the

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-29377217474071918722007-10-04T09:35:00.000-07:002007-10-04T09:44:43.905-07:00setting a green example

The City of Bozeman is now considering pursing its second LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified building according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle October 3, 2007 article, "Bozeman City Hall to Be a Little Greener." The first public LEED certified building in Bozeman (in Montana I think?) was the new Bozeman Public Library which earned Silver LEED certification.Please

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-2146803977739800012007-09-05T20:11:00.000-07:002007-09-05T20:14:36.397-07:00

The first in the series. You don't want to miss it! BORDERLANDS SPEAKER SERIES: Migration, Ethnic Identity, and the Changing Face of Community Sponsored by the College of Letters and Science, and the Departments of Modern Languages, Agricultural Economics & Economics, Sociology & Anthropology, English, and History and Philosophy, this speaker series is designed to facilitate discussion about

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-84758237153151139812007-09-02T22:16:00.000-07:002007-09-02T22:28:40.861-07:00the world without us

I've just finished reading A World Without Us by Alan Weisman (New York, NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 2007)While the entirety of the book is worth your time, the final acknowledgement spoke to me,"All of us humans have a myriad other species to thank. Without them, we couldn't exist. It's that simple, and we can't afford to ignore them, any more than I can afford to neglect my precious wife - nor the

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-71603967985463218332007-07-13T05:04:00.000-07:002007-07-13T05:31:20.220-07:00patron donations, city funding, and generous anonymous donors fund the new bozeman public library

The new Bozeman Public Library financial shortfall will be paid, announced the Bozeman Public Library Foundation yesterday at a early afternoon press conference at the Friends of the Library Wild Joe's Coffee and Book Shop in the new library. A private anonymous donor has stepped up once again to donate $880,000, the amount needed to pay off what looks to be the remaining tab on the $18.2 million

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-46734222879848627002007-05-13T07:58:00.000-07:002007-05-18T20:20:54.398-07:00truth about recycling in bozeman

Please watch this recycling slide show from the City of Bozeman to find out what is going on with recycling and glass collection in Bozeman. Be aware that any recyclables that are left out side of the binnies are thrown out and not recycled. Glass is being collected again but not recycled or reused until the City Commission can determine what to do with it. Have any suggestions?RECYCLING

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-50967425192856214372007-05-13T07:48:00.000-07:002007-05-13T08:03:05.907-07:00still need a bike?

Another economical way to get a bike:BOZEMAN POLICE DEPARTMENT UNCLAIMED BICYCLE AUCTIONSATURDAY, MAY 19TH, 2007 11:00 A.M.To be sold at Police auction on May 19th, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. at the impound lot at 600 East Griffin Street, Bozeman, County of Gallatin, State of Montana to the highest bidder for cash in hand. Viewing of Bicycles from 10:00-11:00. Bicycle Sale 11:00-12:00. Cash or Check for

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-56575197906765600702007-05-10T20:55:00.000-07:002007-05-11T20:26:13.032-07:00"i'm not just shelving books."

The Movie Trailer for " The Hollywood Librarian." I'm definitely interested in seeing this at a library near me.More cardholders than Visa, more locations then McDonalds, moving more items than FedEx (Interlibrary Loan). I hope there is a good section on Nancy Pearl.

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-78623288826881148052007-05-07T09:23:00.000-07:002007-05-13T08:05:10.274-07:00bike to school and work (and the library) week, may 14 -18, 2007

Bike to School and Work Week is coming up, May 14 -18. Pull your bike out of the shed (if you haven't already), put some air in the tires, change the flat, and bike to school, work, or the library.Don't have a bike? My husband and I both scored free bikes by putting a request out on our local Gallatin Valley freecycle. We had been posting our barely used baby toys, clothes, and even glass baby

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-20155054742169039362007-04-23T06:35:00.000-07:002007-04-23T07:33:35.143-07:00"the more we read together..

...the happier we'll be.Because your friend is my friend,and my friend is your friend.The more we read togetherthe happier we'll be."This week, the BPL is losing one of the world's best children's librarians. Renee is leaving us for Minnesota. My little bug has thoroughly enjoyed every Books & Babies meeting Renee has led. She will be sorely missed. If you are driving through Duluth, please drop

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-15115323623869008262007-04-22T09:08:00.000-07:002007-04-22T09:24:34.143-07:00small steps: the earth day myth

Earth Day has always left me with mixed emotions. Embrace the one day that we look at such an all encompassing problem or feel contempt as this one day lets us off the hook for every other day of the year that isn't Earth Day?Worldchanging (one of my favorite online communities) has a strong article about this. Instead leaving the same message here in weak prose I'll quote the experts...The

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-86718511368823134912007-04-18T21:00:00.000-07:002007-04-18T21:17:43.969-07:00stop the violence

In light of the v-tech and uw shootings:"In a tragic way, our awareness of the horrific nature of partnership violence was heightened dramatically two weeks ago. Now, it is magnified even more so. As a society and as a community, we need to continue to address issues of how violence can erupt in a relationship and identify resources to help those who may be prone to acts of violence, as well as

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-30498185033202273992007-04-16T19:19:00.000-07:002007-04-16T19:34:12.243-07:00save the earth and support the bozeman public library

Now you can save the Earth and support the Bozeman Public Library in just one action!Recycle your aluminium cans at the Pacific Steel & Recycling Center drive-through at 315 West Griffin Drive, Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm.Put the recycleables (cans and anything else they recycle) on the Friends of the Bozeman Public Library account.All of the money raised is donated to the Friends to support

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-51948778065027708442007-04-14T07:24:00.000-07:002008-12-11T16:28:40.412-08:00glass is trash

Just in case you didn't know...Glass is Trash in Bozeman, MT.This sign is posted on all of the glass "recycling" binnies here in Bozeman.

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-83829816093232645672007-04-11T08:47:00.000-07:002008-12-11T16:28:40.556-08:00no market for glass in bozeman

The caption under the photo from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle on Monday April 2, 2007 says it all, "Glass taken from local recycling bins sits in piles at the Bozeman Landfill. It will be mixed with dirt then used as landfill covering."Solid Waste Superintendent S. Johnson states that, "What we're doing right now isn't really recycling." That is right. Why then did I think I was recycling when I

Catherine McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911150976398538688noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395679063390711321.post-6873741554383653002007-04-07T21:36:00.000-07:002007-04-07T22:08:19.920-07:00the first green librarian post

Welcome to the green librarian blog. My name is Catherine and I work at the Bozeman Public Library here in Bozeman Montana. I am an aspiring librarian with a green streak (the earth saving, sustainability seeking kind of streak).The green librarian was formed as a place to share and explore issues regarding Earth and Library advocacy within our local community. "Saving the Earth" as it is

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