After her first day dusting copies of the Science Citation Index as a student assistant at Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts) Science Library, Mandy Henk knew she had found her calling. A graduate of Simmons College School of Library Science and currently the Access Services Librarian at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, Mandy devotes her time to activism, motherhood, writing, and librarianship. She was a 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker and one of the early guerrilla librarians of the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street. She rides an Xtracycle Radish and lives with her two children, husband, four cats, two frogs, and a dog.

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Henk, Mandy.

Ecology, economy, equity : the path to a carbon-neutral library / Mandy Henk. — First edition.

pages cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8389-1217-1 (alk. paper)

1. Library buildings—Environmental aspects. 2. Library buildings—Energy conservation. 3. Libraries—Environmental aspects. 4. Libraries—Information technology. 5. Libraries and community. I. Title. II. Title: Path to a carbon-neutral library.

Z679.85.H46 2014

027—dc23 2014006000

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