Mission of UF Smathers Library Green Team
The UF Libraries’ Green Team has a mission to “encourage and engage in action – through operations, education, research, and outreach – that affects change towards a more sustainable library, campus, and community”. Recent projects focused on the reduction of office and paper waste and included:
- Coordinate of the campus-wide Tools for Schools Drive
- Development of a book drive to support materials reuse
- Lead a community Gators Read discussion on books related to sustainability
- Implement duplex printing, for reducing paper waste
- Development of a sustainability focused e-newsletter
From a previous Earth Day poster...
- The Libraries Green Team helps promote:
- New ways of thinking about library services and procedures to promote a safer and more sustainable environment
- Reduction of waste to help UF meet its goal of Zero Waste
- Conservation of resources within the Libraries
