Al Qantara Library Meeting of Feb 22, 2010
Held at El Partel Plaza
Present: Imotali Antiesse, Lilith Ivory, Mashi Muramabhad, Andreu Donat, Fern Leissa, Rose Springvale, Nala Kamala
Andreu showed the map, made by the anadalusian geographer Al-Idrisi; a map that is extremely important for the history of map-making, to the people that were not at the last library meeting. We are going to put the map up in the plaza.
Discussion on framing the map continued. Lilith suggested adding the frame to the texture to save a prim. Rose suggested that it would be a good idea to have something consistent to frame with and that the frame needs to be historically accurate. Rose checked with Damen Gorilla, the creator of the plaza to see if he has appropriate textures for the frame. Rose will pass the Damen textures to Lilith for frame-making; if the perms are right.
Andreu is also working on a notecard for the map. Imotali suggested adding book info and links to the notecard.
Minerva Trapdoor will hold an archive copy of the Al-Idrisi map texture.
Mashi also raised the issue of whether or not the library should have Spanish language material. She is willing to help with information in Spanish or with looking for more Islamic art.
Rose noted that Arias is willing to help with translations as well.
Fern said no bookmaking workshop has been lined up yet. Still trying to find someone willing to teach it. Neither JJ Drinkwater nor Rolig Loon make "page-turning" books. Both Rose and Fern will continue looking for someone. Rose will look for a list of bookmaker names that Onyx Plutonium gave to her.
Rose has arranged for a storytelling session for March 22 at 6 pm slt. Everyone discussed how to publicize the event. Rose suggested that we start with the CDS/AA groups as well as the storytelling Guild. Rose suggested that we also need to publish on SL events. Mashi suggested that we put posters up. Rose agreed to work on the publicity for the event.
Rose also suggested that we think about using the Alexandrian Library Group. Fern will follow up on contacting the Alexandrian Library group. Need to make sure we are compliant with their standards.
Fern discussed the plan to try and have an events board. Lilith has already indicated a willingness to help. Rose had a sample board make by Satir which Rose rezzed, as another possibility. She noted that since AA has been around for 3 years, many things are already made/available. Rose will see what she can bring to the next meeting in terms of a modified board for the library. The top will say events, than each section below will be whatever we want to highlight.
Discussed prim use. The maximum left for use is 100. Rose thought that some of the pretty but not necessary items should be removed to save prims.
The quality of the furnishings, the importance of not making changes to fast, of consistency with the existing build was also discussed. Lilith also noted that there are a lot of high quality 1 prim plants available now. Rose also mentioned Linden plants
Rose announced that there may be a new group willing to take over the old library building. It is a private, non-profit literary group called the Silver Pen. If they decide to use it as a library we may want to make sure we are coordinating programs.
Fern affirmed that the Al Qantara library did not need anything from the old library building.
More discussion about changing the meeting time to accommodate different, busy avatar schedules. Evenings were discussed but were not good for Fern. Weekends are already full of events. Wednesdays are also busy. Discussed using Doodle but decided not to do so.
Next meeting will be Tuesday, March 9 at 10 am slt
Birthday cake will be served.
