Ensure you can log into the Anchor Archive site as an Admin
Find a zine to fast catalogue
Get stickers ready
Introductions
Introduce yourself and role in the library
Ask everyone to share their names, pronouns, access needs, and interests in the library and related experience
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 workshops, residency, summer student, relationship with Radstorm, Ink Storm, Sad Rad, and other projects
Ways to be involved
Open hours
Cataloguing (parties)
Zine workshops
Website
Posters and pamphlets
Marketing and social media
Table at zine fairs
Organize events and programming
Explaining open hours today mostly, let me know if you’re interested in doing other stuff
There are also other ways to get involved with Radstorm
Responsibilities when doing open hours:
Greet people, provide information about space and projects
Explain what the zine library is and how it works
Help visitors to the library find zines
Sign up new members and sign out zines
Sell zines to people
Help people with zine-making
Help people with photocopier
Tidy and organize
Check in and reshelve zines
Catalogue zines
Process incoming mail
Make zine displays and other improvements to the space
Other projects
Give tour - show/explain:
Zines in library
By topic and personal
How they're organized
Many are missing
Books
Magazines in storage – will eventually make list or catalogue all, available by request
Mini-zines
Returns box
Open hours binder - go through, ask them to read through policies
Money box
Zine-making kit and zine-making supplies
Zine research
Different ways of searching for zines in catalogue
basic search
advanced search
browse by box category
browse by subject
new zines
Finding zines on the shelf
Special collections
Circulation
Policies – who can borrow zines and for how long
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
Collection development
Collection policy
Zine donations
Buying new zines
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
