[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] General Volunteers Meeting Notes 06/16/11

[Ramey Connelly]

General Volunteers Meeting Notes 06/16/2011

Attendees: Christie, Brantley, T, Ramey
Facilitator: Christie
Notes: Ramey

Agenda items:
Talking points for Alison re: interview
Reorganizing
Next month's Open Hours
Events
Community Organizing forum/conference meeting

1) Talking points for Alison re: interview
       Brief history of the library (can refer them to "A Brief  
History of TFBL Pamphlet")
       Open Hours
       Address
       website - wordpress & librarything. If there's time/space, the  
RVA Radicalendar could be mentioned
      All volunteer
      While a radical space, TFB is not strictly anarchist or  
politically-oriented. Everybody is welcome to organize in the space.  
Books are centered on social issues with a focus of harder-to-find  
stuff.
      Not just books; also an extensive zine collection, videos,  
fliers, and periodicals
      All ages safe space - all events, including open hours and  
meetings, are sober
Regarding photos: best to keep it to photos of the books themselves;  
Beehive Collective has given permission to use photos from their  
event, but try not to use photos of people who have not given their  
explicit consent

2) Reorganizing - Ideas for new sections/rearranged sections are in  
the red notebook. People can move books, alphabetize, or make notes.  
Spot is help in red notebook with a notecard. Ramey will be at Open  
Hours on Monday reorganizing if others would like to join and help.

3) Open Hours for July will be bottomlined by Brantley & should be  
posted soon
      There is still one more slot open for June 30th; Christie will  
send out notice. Almost all shifts in June are still in need of a  
secondary person.

4) We want to do a series of film screenings & potlucks, with each  
film based on a book we have in the library, and with the potluck  
having a theme related to the book/film. (As per example, screening  
Persepolis with Iranian foods, or screening Che with a variety of  
foods from Latin America, etc)
     Proposed doing one screening per month on a Friday evening
     Christie will bottomline first event & will send out a separate  
email regarding feedback for possible dates & films

5) A community organizing training conference/forum is in the very  
basic works right now. The next meeting is on Tuesday June 21st at 5PM  
with the location TBA. Please contact Ramey at 804-519-8724 if you are  
interested or would like more details.