The Olive Free Library and Sustainability

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Ou recent renovations saw many improvements to help with our mission:

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We also ensured that for the first time ever, our library was fully ADA compliant by …

In 2024, we joined the Sustainable Libraries Initiative

This is a certification program in which libraries accomplish various tasks to ensure that they are doing all they can to be a truly sustainable institution. By adopting the Triple Bottom Line, which balances environmental stewardship, economic feasibility, and social equability, we are working every day to ensure that our library will be there for our community for many years to come.

Since joining the SLI, we have engaged in a number of exercises and made a number of changes to help us reach our goals.

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These are just a small sample of what we have accomplished recently, and we have many plans for the future!

Look for upcoming community conversations, where we reach out to community members to help inform our decision making, more resiliency programming to inform residents on how to act in the event of an emergency, and more sustainable technology at the library like heat pumps. We are excited to look toward the future, and we hope you are too!

Please stop by the library anytime to discuss our sustainability initiatives with our director, and hear about the many plans we have going forward.

The Pirate Ships program for kids and families used all recycled materials

In 2024, the library conducted a waste audit