Hokey meets Mr. Logic

Firefox Printing Tip

If you want to print something out from Firefox next time, rather than just blindly clicking print, try hitting print preview. Print preview not only allows you to see extra blank pages you don’t need to print, it also gives you the option to scale documents. If two pages of your document can easily fit on one page, do it and save some paper!

Don’t just print!

Use print preview.

Can you fit two pages of that Mapquest printout onto one page???

Sometimes I am sad.

I don’t like to be sad.

I like to skip about in my hum-drum, little life with an air of joy and contentedness. But sometimes people can really get me down…

an all-too familiar sight…

no. please, NOOOOOOOOO!

….not Haydn’s ‘Nun beut die Flur’! People, doesn’t such a masterpiece deserve a little more respect than to be so casually tossed into the trash alongside your chewing gum and your scraps of dignity??

And THEN, as if that wasn’t traumatizing enough, my eyes catch sight of a hastily stashed pile of papers protruding from underneath the printer….

30 pages. A perfectly pristine article left at the printer.

Here are some suggestions, students, if you accidentally print out an article that you don’t need:
1. try offering it to some of your other classmates who may have not printed it yet
2. give it to the teacher as an extra copy in case someone forgets to bring it to class
3. staple it, and put it on the free table outside in the lobby because someone else who is interested might want to read it

[please feel free to offer any other suggestions!]

Hokey, Vikki & Wayne in: “Big Words are Cool”

New Page

We’ve added a page about the characters in the comic.
(Evidently this post is very dry.)
Check out the page. Peace.

Comic Characters PAGE.

Paperwaste debuts at VALE Conference

On January 9, 2008, we trekked to Pisquataway, NJ [which is not spelled "Piscataway," as I originally thought] to participate in the poster session at the VALE (Virtual Academic Library Environment) Conference at Rutgers University. Our poster was entitled: Waste Not, Want Not: Partnering for Resource Waste Reduction at Rider University Libraries.

(the infamous “poster.”)

We felt that the session was met with a great deal of positive feedback. Pat Dawson says, “The subject of the poster session seemed to hit hot buttons, that many other libraries are in the same boat, and folks expressed interest in our efforts.” Many schools are facing the same issues involving the abuse of free printing and the inevitable amount of wonton waste

(not this kind of wonton).

that accompanies it, as well as suspicion as to whether or not the paper is actually being recycled. Many people asked for simple changes they could implement that would at least be a start in the right direction, and we told them about the efforts our staff was making in the office (reusing bibliographic print-outs, cutting scrap paper into smaller pieces to keep next to the computers, etc.) and encouraging students to be responsible and aware of their paper usage. Most participants urged us to keep pushing for a double-sided printer and copier as it has helped alleviate a lot of their problems in this area.

Sustainability Coordination Manager Diana Kayes agreed that the poster session was a very positive experience. Kayes says, “It put the word out about Rider and offered other schools ideas for what they could be doing, no matter how the small the step.”

VALE website: http://www.valenj.org/
VALE Users Conference blog: http://valenews.wordpress.com/
–> check out “The Library in the Academic Enterprise: Toward a Sustainable Software Ecosystem.”

paper offender roams the streets of princeton.

36 pages of wasted paper were found today at the printing station.

Preliminary investigation revealed that an unidentified perpetrator was attempting to print some driving directions off of mapquest, leaving behind a disgraceful paper trail. Fortunately for us, the criminal wasn’t the sharpest pencil in the box. Their home address was printed on each of these sheets.

Below is a dramatization.

You laugh now, Perp…

…but paper waste is no laughing matter.

hero of the week!

He’s a gem of a guy with a heart for Mother Earth. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Devin Mariman.

Devin Mariman

Devin has just made the official decree that all of the printers in the Performance Collection will be loaded primarily with scrap/reusable paper. From now on, new paper will only be loaded upon request. [And at that point, we may start to use a variety of shame tactics to help them see the consequences of their actions.]

a bit of fantastic.

I was recently made aware that Moore Library sends medical journals to aid doctors and nurses at work in Iraq. Recycling and helping the troops–definitely two awesome birds with one stone.

Here is an excerpt of the letter from Mark W. Burnett, M.D. from Camp Taji, Iraq:

The combination of the Hussein regime, pre-war sanctions and the current turmoil in Iraq has made it very difficult for physicians and dentists to stay even reasonably current on medical developments. When I have dropped off your donated books and journals I have been met with sheer amazement at how current the literature is–I wish that you all could be there to share these moments with me. I have found the medical professionals to be some of the most apolitical people I have met in Iraq–they really are role models for the society at large. I will never forget their courage as they often risk their lives just to hold meetings with coalition forces.

I love the simplicity of this program. No politics, no axes to grind, no hidden motives–just colleagues helping colleagues. I know that we all have many people asking for our help nowadays–I just appreciate the fact that you took the time to box up your books or journals and send them “over here.”

Medical and nursing books and journals are sent through a Global Village program to English-speaking clinicians. (Thanks to Pat Dawson at Moore Library for sending this information our way!)

Check out the article in Medscape for further information on these donations. (Since the website requires a password, I have included it below.)

a little recycling trivia.

Did you know that……….

• the average person in the United States produces about 6.5 pounds of trash every day?
• at the rate Americans are generating garbage, 500 new landfills would be needed every year?
• one third of the paper mills in the United States use recycled waste paper exclusively?
• every three months, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild the nation ’s commercial air fleet?
• if you throw away two aluminum cans, you would waste more energy than is used daily by each of a billion citizens in poorer countries?
• the energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a television for three hours?
• it takes 95% less energy to make aluminum from recycled scrap than from virgin materials?
• making new paper from recycled paper requires 30-50% less energy than making paper from trees and it reduces contributions to air pollution by 95%?
• every ton of recycled office paper saves approximately 380 gallons of oil?
• the energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will light a 100-watt light bulb for four hours?

it’s like those fantastic NBC commercial moments from our childhood starring Levar Burton and various other sundry actors….the more you know.

[http://www.co.mchenry.il.us/Common/CountyDpt/PlanDev/swTrivia.asp]