Your library has gone green, and as a result will save some green, too. The Fresno County Library System has been recognized by a partnership between PG&E and Autonomic Software for its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. In a presentation on May 14, Interim County Librarian Pat Pondexter and Support Services Manager Deborah Janzen accepted the I.T. Sustainability Award for the Library's implementation of automated software that will switch computers at all 35 branch libraries to energy-saving standby mode during business hours when not in use, and restart computers when needed from one central location. Additionally, computers can be automatically shut down each evening for completion of software updates while libraries are closed, then restarted each morning when libraries open from a central location. The centralized system will not only represent a cost savings to the library's budget, but is estimated that over a three-year period will reduce the Library's carbon footprint by 1,059 tons of CO2, which is equivalent to planting 210 acres of trees, or removing 175 cars from the roads.