Holiday Sharing 2014

This year, as part of SU's Holiday Sharing Program, a generous group of staff from our Bird Library family put together a flat-bed full of gifts, groceries, toiletries, laundry detergent, paper products, and gift cards for our our adopted family of eight children and one adult.

The University elves will be distributing our collections to the community organizations who provide us with the family information.

The Libraries' Holiday Sharing Committee would like to thank you all for helping to make this event a success by taking time from your busy schedules to shop and provide donations to our family.

United Way Fundraiser Extravaganza results

Thank you!!!

Once again, we can say the Syracuse University Libraries PARTICIPATED WITH PRIDE in the annual United Way Campaign.

After adding together all of our fundraisers, we raised a grand total of over $677 to help those less fortunate in our own community.

DeAnn Buss was the lucky employee to win the fourth annual "Libraries Day-Off Donation Giveaway." She will receive one extra full day off with pay during the current fiscal year. Congratulations, DeAnn!

May your holidays be even merrier knowing that you helped make these coming days, and the new year, more hopeful for so many members of our community.

Make your Green Days sustainable

Will you be away from your campus office for an extended period during the upcoming Winter Break/Green Days period? If so, before leaving, please do the following:

• Turn off and unplug all office and personal electronics such as computers, monitors, printers, paper shredders, coffee makers, bottled water coolers, televisions, chargers, staplers, etc.
• Put your copier and fax machine in "sleep" mode.
• Water or take home plants.
• Close and lock all windows.
• Turn off all office lights on your way out, including decorative and task fixtures.

One easy way to make sure you're not wasting energy is to plug your computer, monitor, printer, and any other peripherals you use into a single power strip. Once your computer is shut down, you can effectively unplug it and all the other pieces by turning off the power strip. That's a lot easier than unplugging everything individually and plugging them back when you return. Just turn the power strip back on and restart the computer.

All of these efforts save energy and contribute to SU's Climate Action Plan, the institutional blueprint for becoming carbon neutral.

For questions about campus sustainability, contact Steve Lloyd, associate director for sustainability, at salloyd@syr.edu or 443-4993.