Going Green at the
UGA Law Library Deborah Baker, Administrative Associate
The Law
Library has recently become part of the campus wide Go Green
Sustainability Initiative. Prior to implementing the program, the UGA
Physical Plant had a meeting with members of the Law School including
the Law Library to introduce and explain the process. This Initiative
seeks to provide for current campus needs without compromising the
needs of the future. Improving indoor air quality, ensuring workplace
safety, using environmentally friendly cleaning agents, and reducing
waste are just a few of the stated goals of the program. The first
phase of Go Green involved flipping all the buildings on the North
Campus to green cleaning. This was especially challenging because the
North Campus is home to many of the oldest buildings on campus. Once
the North Campus is complete, Go Green will move to the South Campus
and eventually on to the entire campus.
The Go Green Initiative involved extensive training and testing of the
cleaning staff as well as changing from using over three hundred
cleaning chemicals down to just three. Using only these three “green
seal” cleaning agents combined with proper cleaning techniques will
maintain a level of cleanliness and air quality in the Library and save
money at the same time. Once all the training and new cleaning
materials were in place, inspectors from the International Sanitary
Supply Association came to certify that the Library and other North
Campus buildings were in compliance with the Cleaning Industry
Management Standard as administered by the International Sanitary
Supply Association.
UGA’s new recycling manager, Andrew Lentini, was also in attendance at
the kick off meeting and gave an impassioned plea for the Law School
Community to recycle whenever possible. Our staff asked for additional
containers to recycle bottles and cans and we received them within
days. We have placed the new bottle and can containers on each floor
near our paper recycling bins for your convenience. We are doing our
part to facilitate recycling by making it convenient; please help us
reduce waste and recycle whenever possible. Think before you toss
something away as the item you no longer need may be of use to someone
else. If you have any suggestions for us to improve our recycling
efforts please let us know.
For more information about the Go Green Initiative or UGA recycling
see http://gogreen.uga.edu/
Lunch-n-Learn
Join the
Law Library for our final Lunch-n-Learn session of the semester.
Student
Services Librarian Maureen
Cahill will provide a brief
session on surviving law school exams.
"Winning the Long
Campaign: Resources and Strategies for Surviving Law School Exams"
Friday, October 24
12:30 - 1:00pm
Classroom A (note location change)
We'll provide the pizza: you bring a beverage!
Most Frequently Checked-Out Items
The
Law Library circulates hundreds of items each year. We thought you might
find interesting the list below of most-circulated books since our
circulation system went online in 2003.
1. The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
2. Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies by Erwin Chemerinsky
3. A Possessory Estates and Future Interests Primer by Charles I. Nelson and Peter T. Wendel
4. The Law of Torts by Dan B. Dobbs
5. Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts
6. Contracts by E. Allan Farnsworth
7. Federal Practice and Procedure
8. Calamari and Perillo on Contracts
9. How Arbitration Works by Elkouri & Elkouri
10. Uniform Commercial Code: ... Official Text with Comments from the
American Law Institute [and] National Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws
11. Trial Techniques by Thomas A. Mauet
12. The Winning Argument by Ronald Waicukauski, Paul Mark Sandler and JoAnne Epps
Law Dawg of the Month
The October 2008 Law Dawg is Latte, who is pictured here hiding out in her litter box just after being adopted by law student Reagan Bush.
If you'd like your pet to be included in the pool
from which we randomly select each month's Law Dawg, please send your
photo to aburnett@uga.edu.
Crossword Puzzle created by James Donovan
Law in Films (and be sure to check out the library's DVD collection!)
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