University of Miami, Ohio: Global Warming
Global warming dialogue heats up - 02/05/08
Even before presidential candidates were discussing policies and implications, we were hit with An Inconvenient Truth, worries of ice melting in Antarctica and even questioned in Oxford if the "Ohio winter" would ever come. Global warming seemed to, pun intended, be a heated subject.
It seemed a most opportune climate then for Miami University's Science Library's annual orientation Oct. 5, 2007 to have a theme of global climate change, called Global Awareness and Information Access (GAIA).
Eric Resnis, an engineering librarian, has been in charge of planning past year's events, including last year's activities with the Silk Road, and undertook coordinating all the video viewings and book discussions that GAIA is sponsoring.
Resnis took a particular interest in the events when the science library decided on the GAIA theme, since he also serves as a librarian in the environmental science library. While he tries to be environmentally conscious in his daily life, from recycling to embarking on plans for his first vegetable garden, it's not surprising that a man who works with multiple libraries is all about the information.
"Information access is required for awareness," Resnis said. "That was the main purpose of the (science library open house) in October. It is hard to become informed if you don't have access to the information, which is why the library has an important role in the process."
