[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] General Volunteers Meeting Notes 07/21

[Ramey Connelly]

General Volunteers Meeting Notes 07/21
Attendance: Nathan, Megan, Matt, Greg, Ramey
Facilitator: Nathan
Notes: Ramey

Agenda Items

Events
  - Eating Disorder Coalition Fundraiser - Matt
  - Persepolis Movie Screening
  - Crimethinc book tour
  - free class on Reading Marx's Capital
  - Field trips
Scott's books
Zines
New Checkout Log
Library Cards
Collective Membership

1. Events

-Eating Disorder Coalition Fundraiser- Matt W. is planning a  
fundraiser for the Eating Disorders Coalition. If anyone is interested  
in helping him plan this, contact him either through email or phone.  
Dating TBA.

-The first movie screening/potluck of our book-based film series is  
Persepolis! Friday, July 29th at 7PM. Bring a dish to share! Remember,  
the Flying Brick is a sober space, so please no drinking, drugs, or  
intoxication.

-Crimethinc book tour- Crimethinc is touring with their new book,  
Work. Event will be either August 25th or 30th, TBA. Alison is  
bottomlining.

-Kenny would like to organize a free class on Reading Marx's Capital  
using this [ http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/ ] as a resource.   
They would like to hold it corresponding with the first week of school  
(VCU), and have one class per week.  The class will end about the same  
time as VCU and honor all the same holidays.  Will be promoted as a  
free class and folks who miss a class can catch up on their own time.

-Field Trips- Greg & Nathan have been discussing Flying Brick Field  
Trips - On Sunday August 28th, meet at the Brick for a trip to  
Washington DC to visit the Museum of the American Indian, as well as  
the National Museum of Natural History to see the RACE: Are We So  
Different?,exhibit, developed by the American Anthropological  
Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, It  
is the first national exhibition to tell the stories of race from the  
biological, cultural, and historical points of view. Combining these  
perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the  
United States.

Folks will need to bring money for food, metro fair, and gas. If you  
can't afford this, there is a chance that the Library can sponsor a  
few people. Contact theflyingbrick at riseup.net to RSVP (for carpool  
info) or to ask about funding. If this field trip goes well, there  
could be a trip to Harper's Ferry in the future!

2. Scott's books
      When Scott moved away, he left behind about 6 boxes of books to  
donate to the Library. Matt, Ramey, and Nathan will be meeting at the  
Brick on Sunday July 24th at noon to sort through them. Anybody else  
is welcome to join.

3. Zines
      The new zine shelving system will begin construction on  
Thursday, August 15th during Open Hours. Nathan & Ramey are  
bottomlining; anybody else is welcome to help!

4. New Checkout Log
      Nathan will be bottomlining a new system for Checkouts. Every  
person who visits the Library is asked to sign an accountability form.  
These forms will have the person's contact information on them, and  
will be used as the checkout log. They will be stored alphabetically,  
and the log of the books they check out will be kept on the same  
sheet. To be implemented in the next few weeks.

5. Library Cards
      Volunteers are encouraged to give out the Flying Brick Library  
business cards, particularly to newcomers. It has all of our contact  
information on it, and it can be used as a bookmark. You can also  
suggest that people write down their book due dates on the back of the  
card so they can more easily keep track!

6. Collective Membership
      Nathan is interested in finding out if people would like to form  
a more cohesive collective, by determining a defined decision making  
body of people who are committed to being involved & making real  
progress. This does NOT mean that meetings or anything else would be  
closed to the public. Agreeing to be a part of the collective would  
mean a commitment to 3 things:
        1) Frequent communication between members
        2) Regular attendance of meetings (say, not missing more than  
2 meetings in a row without communicating to the rest of the
            group)
        3) Commitment to volunteering at Open Hours or events at least  
once or twice a month
    Nathan will be making INDIVIDUAL contact with people over the next  
few weeks, solely to determine the amount of people on the volunteers  
list who are interested in seeing this happen. Nothing has been  
formally proposed or voted on as of this point.

7) Standard Stuff
      Ramey will bottomline August Open Hours volunteers schedule
      Megan will send out meeting reminders for next month - Monday  
August 1st at 12:30 PM & Thursday August 18th at 6:30 PM
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