Library Working Group Meeting April 8, 2012 6 pm Union Square near the Gandhi Statue, in the sunlight present: Frances, Max, Aaron, Zach, Sarah, Nick, Betsy, Amy, Darah (+1 whose name I didn’t get) agenda: Union Square Carmine Street Mobile Library: Aaron MayDay SIS update Tucson update Library Thing Illuminator update Governor’s Island opportunity   [...]

Working Group Meeting Minutes 3/11/12 Present: Darah, Charlie, Jamie, D., Rami, Mandolin, Shoeshine, Eric, Betsy, Mark, +1 Rami joins working group Community Agreements: tabled for this week (Betsy) Bookstore update: Teddy bought us paint (thanks Teddy!), the space is almost ready. Having this space is really positive. it’s great there. Jim is super-cool. It is [...]

Present: Jaime Scales Briar Mobile Library update from Scales: Almost done; still needs wheels. Sustainability wasn’t very helpful. Maybe try Bike Coalition? Thoughts on Chicago from Jaime and Briar: *Book distribution/circulation — as low-arrest direct action and as service *Reference services *Inviting other non-occupation groups, such as RadRef *Consortium meeting Reminder of librarians’ upcoming court [...]

Library Working Group Minutes 26 February 2012 Tompkins Square Park [Today's meeting was relocated from 60 Wall St to Tompkins Square Park due to the Occupy Town Square] present: Chantal, James, Germ, Charlie, Darah, Esther, Jaime, Hristo, Betsy, Frances reportbacks/announcements: Town Square has been awesome, way to go Library! We got lots of new donations [...]

Library working group meeting minutes 19 February 2012 60 Wall Street Atrium, 6 pm Present: Antonia, Josh, Germ, Dee, Dylan, Charlie, Darah, Frances, Betsy, Danny, Mark, Jaime, James Facilitation: going rogue: this meeting is freestyle Introductions Agenda: Illuminator: description– debut in the park Friday 3/3. who wants to step up for this? maybe Danny maybe [...]

Working Group Meeting Sunday, 2/5/12 6PM 60 Wall St In attendance: Frances, Jaime, Danny, James No formal facilitation Tucson Update All of the publishers and living authors have been contacted. Donations should be arriving shortly Consented on NOT marking books with OWSL as they are for the students and teachers of Tucson and not for [...]

peoples library working group meeting minutes 12 February 2012, 6 pm 60 Wall Street, Atrium present: Amy, Anthony, Betsy, Captain, Chantal, Esther, Germ, Hristo, Jaime, James, Scales facilitation: Jaime, minutes: Betsy   Introductions Reportbacks: James: People’s Library branch at Project Carmine, at Un-oppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books. The space we’re using is currently about 60% cleaned [...]

Present: Charlie-Minuites, Darah, Germ, Marcy/OccuMom, James-Facillitator, Chantel, Colin, Jim Drougas (unoppressive’s owner) Agenda:Should we move part of the OWSL into Unoppressive nonimperialist Bargain Books at 34 Carmine Street? We call several other Librarians and begin discussions. Reponse is overwelmingly positive. Unopressive wants a copy of the bull poster to advertise our presence. We agree to [...]

60 Wall St In attendance: Betsy, Scales, Michele, Hristo, Stephen, Germ, Chris, Darah Michele took minutes. There wasn’t formal facilitation. Agenda 1.     Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books/ Darah 2.     Tuesday 1/24 4pm Red Cube NYPD book recovery action 3.     Book Mobile / Scales 4.     1/29 Town Square 5.     Book collections/emails 6.     Housing Works Panel 1/30 7.     [...]

1/8/2012 6:00PM OWSL meeting minutes Charlie is facilitating Steve S. is taking minutes Announcements: We brought books to West-Park, the Farm, other occupations J-17 Action DA is having a march on Tuesday, January 17th starting from the red cube at noon and led by women and the female-identifying. The theme is glitter. Library has been [...]

10/22/11 Meeting Minutes Peoples Library, Liberty Park Following are the meeting minutes for the October 22nd Library Working Group Meeting. The agenda items are listed first, and the minutes are after the fold (click “continue reading” to see the minutes in full). Finances, expenditures, and internal procedures regarding money, Up/Down vote on joining with GA [...]

November 20, 2011 6:30 pm Pizza place on Lexington near 77th, NYC – – this meeting was spontaneously relocated by consensus of the majority of the working group to support a direct action taking place at chez Bloomberg. Rather than try to conduct the meeting while the NYPD was moving to disperse the crowd, we [...]

Library Working Group Meeting minutes 28 November 2011 6:30 pm Moonstruck Café 244 Madison Avenue, New York, NYC present: Elena, Emilio, Nathan, Michele, Jaime, Danny, Scales, Betsy, Zach L., Catherine, James, Bill, Charlie, Laura, Amanda, Jenny, Stephen, Max, Briar Facilitator = Frances, Stack = Zach, Time = Amanda, Minutes = Betsy Set agenda Introductions Team [...]

Jaime=facilitator, Charlie=stack tacker, Betsy=minutes present: Jaime, Bill, Charlie, Michelle, Stephen B., Megan, Betsy, Hristo, Frances, Hamaz (sorry if I missed anybody) Setting the Agenda ALA conference in January Jaime & Betsy: Who’s going and who wants to go, details. Betsy was invited by the ALA Conference Planning Manager to present at this year’s Midwinter conference. [...]

Facilitating: Laura/Frances Stack: Karim Minutes: Michele Attending: Laura, Zach, Amanda, Karim, Frances, Bill, Michele, Scales, Colin (new to WG; does projects with microlibraries), Hristo, Charlie, Stephen B., Prince (new, here to help), Betsy, Sean, Catherine, Swapan (from Rhyming Poets International). Visitors from Free Lit Table, who stayed just for their proposal: David, Rocko, Thadeaus, Patrick. [...]

Those of you in attendance at last nights’ meeting know that it was a difficult one. We spent the majority of our time with our guests from OWS Mediation discussing problems we have encountered with communication, respect, transparency, accountability, and appropriate group communications. It was a long night. We did come to some resolutions for [...]

November 13, 2011, 6 pm, People’s Library Laura= facilitator, Jaime=time, Sean=stack, Betsy=minutes also present: Zach L, Stephen B, Bill, Scales, Michele, Charlie, Hristo, Danny, James, +1 visitor Review of signs Announcements: Thanks from Occupy Cinema Wall Street walking Tour information Agenda: Library & Archives strengthening ties No one is present from Archives. Zach has training [...]