cassdunn
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expanding STAND's library + speakers
i think we should start expanding STAND's library as a resource to students, faculty, and maybe even Springfield community members, alumni, etc.
my thoughts on this are that:
whenever you attend a conference, workshop, etc., you can donate whatever materials you can/want to STAND's library (we've already been doing this)
also, i think we should work some $$ into our semesterly budget to buy, say, a book and a documentary film or one or the other or subscribe to a journal or magazine or something each semester. it'd be easy, and remember, any money that we don't ask for just stays in student senate. that's one of the powers of being a student org.: we have all of that $$ from the university that we can put to good use.
if we agree on this, we should research the university library's collection to make sure we don't overlap material.
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we need to have a speaker or other OUTSIDE informational event once every semester, don't you think? if congress approves this new amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill (and i'm hoping they do!!!!), we won't be traveling to georgia each year anymore. what do you all thinK? meanwhile, be brainstorming for good speakers to invite. also, if you have any information on how this works, let's get a discussion going about it on the discussion board.
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6/8/2006, 12:07 pm
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Re: expanding STAND's library + speakers
Yes.
I think that if we were to open up our library/resources to the community, we'd need to have some sort of database for it, unless we were able to find a more public place to store our materials. If we still have it essentially living in someone's closet, we could release a printed or, even better, online catalogue of what's available, so that people could request things from the appropriate person. At the very least, fellow STANDers might find things they're interested in that they just didn't know we had. Like Luke's middle school poetry, for instance.
As for ideas, I haven't got any off the top of my head, but I'll be sure to jot things down as they come to me, if collecting more stuff and ideas for speakers is something we want to do.
(...damnit, we're going to use this message board, even if it just ends up being Cass-and-Emily-writing-back-and-forth ...)
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6/8/2006, 8:41 pm
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Re: expanding STAND's library + speakers
i just came up with an idea. it's a little premature in our capabilities to pull it off, but i think it's a really good idea.
SO, we would set up a website catalogue of our resources and materials and then we'd call other campus activism orgs and ask if they wanted to establish a sort-of ohiolink type of thing with us. we would use postage in stead of driving the materials to whatever school is interested in them.
NOW, i think the idea is OKAY as far as resources go (especially since i think it's been ineffectively tried before), but when you think about how disassociated student groups are from each other, and think about how much solidarity we could instigate or even generate from such a simple opperation, it seems decent. it wouldn't be too difficult, either. we'd need someone to be in charge of setting up the website, checking for new requests, and gathering up the materials and putting them in the mail. we'd also need budget $$ for shipping.
say we wanted to launch a huge campaign that we are totally unfamiliar with. we could have a section of our "ohiolink" thing dedicated to packets of materials from campaigns launched at schools (like example petitions, posters, notes from meetings, etc.) this might even generate discussion between schools that launched similar campaigns--what we did that we could've done better, what worked/what didn't, etc. i don't know...i guess it would be awfully involved, and students have a tendancy to start things like this and then let them dissipate. any thoughts on this?
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6/9/2006, 10:57 am
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