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I see the role of sustainability as critical to our organization. \u00a0As an information association, we are the voice to our profession. We have to be the link between what we want our libraries to model as well as the educator and training around current relevant topics. I see the Sustainability round table as the primary developer of guiding principles and the facilitator of outreach programs that encourage sustainability efforts within libraries. \u00a0Your mission is to educate, inform and connect. I see your round table as the driving force for developing and sharing of values and initiating programs that can be replicated throughout any and all libraries. The task of educating is a revolving door that never closes.<\/span><\/p>\nAs President of ALA I will definitely support the work of the round table. Collaboration remains the key for us in educating our communities. \u00a0Combining forces with other affiliates will increase the number of people we reach. In keeping with the theme of \u201cLibraries Lead\u201d perhaps we could launch a state by state campaign of planned events around sustainability education. The communities we serve are still not as knowledgeable as we\u2019d like around the issues of environmental and economic consequences associated with our actions. Not only partnering with other divisions of ALA, we also encourage libraries to collaborate with other community groups. We could launch a national day\/week of collaborative programming within each county.<\/span><\/p>\n Peter Hepburn<\/b><\/p>\n Sustainability of and within ALA is a priority for my presidency.\u00a0 I eagerly await the report of the Task Force on Sustainability, and I will focus on ensuring its recommendations come to fruition.\u00a0 I also want to facilitate collaboration and cooperation across the various ALA units so that work on sustainability will be shared.\u00a0 SustainRT could be a partner for so many others \u2013 think of how it could contribute to divisional conferences, or how it could develop programs and tools with any other round table \u2013 and as president, I want to encourage those partnerships as much as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n I learned a lot from SustainRT (and joined it!) in my three years as its Executive Board liaison, and I am keen that the interests of the round table become the interests of the association as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wanda Brown I see the role of sustainability as critical to our organization. \u00a0As an information association, we are the voice to our profession. We have to be the link between what we want our libraries to model as well as the educator and training around current relevant topics. I see the Sustainability round table … Continue reading Meet our candidates for ALA President!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-elections","category-candidate-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Peter-Hepburn-e1520742857358-150x150.jpg\")
Sustainability is relevant to the entirety of ALA.\u00a0 There is not one of us \u2013 member or staff \u2013 who is not touched in some way by what sustainability means.\u00a0 Whether we define it in terms of environmentally responsible practices, or we think of it more broadly in terms of how ALA manages and maintains its many assets, the concept should matter to us all.\u00a0 We see this in our libraries already.\u00a0 As my campaign site (<\/span>https:\/\/www.peterforala.org\/<\/span><\/a>) declares, \u201cLibraries sustain our communities and institutions\u201d.\u00a0 They serve as models and resources for sustainable practices.\u00a0 ALA can provide the space for exchange of ideas such that more and more libraries adopt and further disseminate those practices.<\/span><\/p>\n