| Anchor Archive open hours training checklist
by anchorarchivist...Name and pronoun go-around (if more than 1 person being trained)
Overview of Anchor Archive
- History
- Mandate: providing free or affordable access to independent and alternative media, art, and education. Space for people to come together to share skills, knowledge, and resources. DIY, non-hierarchical, consensus-based approaches.
- Structure: Collectively run, consensus-based, no paid staff, no one in charge, you run the zine library, monthly meetings, regular work parties
- Open to new projects and ideas
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Zine worskhops, residency, summer student, relationship with Ink Storm and Sad Rad
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Trans-inclusive - not assuming gender, gender neutral pronouns, pronoun go-arounds at meetings
Ways to be involved
Responsibilities when doing open hours:
- Help visitors to the library
- Help with photocopier
- Tidy up zine library and photocopier room
- Check in and reshelve zines
- Catalogue zines
- Process incoming mail
- Make copies of fliers
- Other projects
- Make zine displays
- Follow up on overdue zines
Give tour - show/explain:
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Zines in library - by topic and personal - how they're organized
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Books
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Magazines in storage – will eventually make list or catalogue all, available by request
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Mini-zines
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Step ladder/stool
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Returns box
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Open hours binder - go through, ask them to read through policies
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Change jar
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Storage space - box of open hours stuff, zine-making kit, boxes of zines to sort through, file cabinet with zine originals and other things
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Zine-making supplies in photocopier room
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Washroom
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Plan B, relationship with cafe, Plan B staff available to help and answer questions about space, Plan B has a lot of stuff and we often need to move it out of the way
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Gallery space is used for events, sometimes things not put back, sometimes things/garbage left behind
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People can hang out without buying something from the cafe.
Zine research
- Different ways of searching for zines in catalogue
- Finding zines on the shelf
Circulation
- Becoming a member
- Adding new members
- Checking out zines
- How to fast catalogue
- Checking in zines
- Checking for overdue zines
- What can be borrowed and for how long
Distro
- Selling zines
- Buying zines
Accepting zine donations
- Collection policy
- Buying new zines
Cataloguing
- How to fast catalogue
- How to fully catalogue (if the volunteers are interested)
- How to add an additional copy
- How to edit catalogue records
Photocopier
- Mandate of People's Photocopier
- Single-sided and double-sided
- Colour copying
- Special features
- Printing from thumb drive and scanning to thumb drive
- Adding paper, changing toner
- Costs and how to pay
- Making copies for the Anchor Archive - how to record
- What to do if there's a problem
Sign up new volunteer...
- for a zine borrowing hours shift
- to the collective e-mail list
- to announcements
- to zine borrowing hours e-mail list
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