Anchor Archive open hours training checklist

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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
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

Responsibilities when doing open hours:

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
People can hang out without buying something from the cafe.

Zine research

Circulation

Distro

Accepting zine donations

Cataloguing

Photocopier

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