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Paper Use And Recycling In Academic Libraries, Michele Calloway, Darren Callahan
Paper Use And Recycling In Academic Libraries, Michele Calloway, Darren Callahan
E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)
Conclusions
While it is difficult to predict what the future may hold in regard to paper use and recycling, without a doubt, academic libraries are sites of enormous consumption and they should be proactive in institutional improvements in waste management. A paperless society is unlikely to become a reality for a very long time, if ever, but what can libraries do now to discourage paper waste and encourage recycling? According to the results of this survey, libraries are taking steps to divert recyclables from the garbage. In the future, as people become even more accustomed to working in the electronic …
Reflections On Ranganathan’S Five Laws Of Library Science, Richard Leiter
Reflections On Ranganathan’S Five Laws Of Library Science, Richard Leiter
Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library
This article is adapted from a column that I wrote for Legal Assistant Today in 1996. The column’s audience was legal assistants, some of whom, I discovered over my seven years as a columnist for the publication, had responsibility for managing law firm libraries or library resources in addition to their other duties. So from time to time my column drifted into advice about managing libraries. This particular column came about at a time when I was mentoring some younger librarians and discovered to my surprise that they did not know of Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science. When I …