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. Collectively run, how to participate, meetings
• Open to new projects

• Zine worskhops, residency, summer student, relationship with Ink Storm and Sad Rad

• Trans-inclusive - not assuming gender, gender neutral pronouns, pronoun go-arounds at meetings

Ways to be involved

• Open hours

• Cataloguing (Sunday afternoons, take zines home)

• Zine workshops

• Website

• Posters and pamphlets

• Table at zine fairs

• Organize events

• Explaining open hours and cataloguing today

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:

• Zines in library - by topic and personal - how they're organized

• Books

• Magazines in storage – will eventually make list or catalogue all, available by request

• Mini-zines

• Step ladder/stool

• Returns box

• Open hours binder - go through, ask them to read through policies

• Change jar

• Storage space - box of open hours stuff, zine-making kit, boxes of zines to sort through, file cabinet with zine originals and other things

• Zine-making supplies in photocopier room

• Washroom

• 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

• 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