Author: brian
The New Nonstop Library
4,000 Books And Publications Find Home In The New Nonstop Library
Volunteer farmers, academics, and townspeople rallied to the cause to rescue 4,000 books and publications—discarded or left behind at the abandoned Antioch College Campus when Antioch University closed the school last July—until they could be safely housed in the Nonstop Library, in its newly constructed Headquarters.
A professional librarian guided the cataloging of the libraries. An alum (’64) drove across the country from Oregon to Yellow Springs—where she lived for two months—joined Nonstop students and staff to help organize the collection, while volunteer alumni, villagers, and Nonstop personnel painted the floors, built shelves, installed lighting, and donated computers and furniture. (This was an effort similar to the substantially volunteer campaign to renovate Nonstop’s 5,000 square-foot Headquarters: at a cost of $10 per square-foot, as opposed to the typical renovation cost of $100 per square-foot).
To make the books and publications accessible, Nonstop’s IT department installed an open source online checkout system and network, driven by a brand new $8,000 server, donated to Nonstop by an Antioch College alum.
This scalable library infrastructure—complete with protocols, bar codes, and database integration—sets a framework for an expandable knowledge base and future integration with an independent Antioch College.
These volunteer efforts by alumni, faculty and friends reflect the in-kind endowment of our grassroots effort to protect the past and preserve the present as we build our future.
Please visit the Nonstop Library on-line and watch a 4-minute video about this extraordinary liberal arts intervention.
Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute
April 19, 2009
The New Nonstop Library
4,000 Books And Publications Find Home In The New Nonstop Library
Volunteer farmers, academics, and townspeople rallied to the cause to rescue 4,000 books and publications—discarded or left behind at the abandoned Antioch College Campus when Antioch University closed the school last July—until they could be safely housed in the Nonstop Library, in its newly constructed Headquarters.
A professional librarian guided the cataloging of the libraries. An alum (’64) drove across the country from Oregon to Yellow Springs—where she lived for two months—joined Nonstop students and staff to help organize the collection, while volunteer alumni, villagers, and Nonstop personnel painted the floors, built shelves, installed lighting, and donated computers and furniture. (This was an effort similar to the substantially volunteer campaign to renovate Nonstop’s 5,000 square-foot Headquarters: at a cost of $10 per square-foot, as opposed to the typical renovation cost of $100 per square-foot).
To make the books and publications accessible, Nonstop’s IT department installed an open source online checkout system and network, driven by a brand new $8,000 server, donated to Nonstop by an Antioch College alum.
This scalable library infrastructure—complete with protocols, bar codes, and database integration—sets a framework for an expandable knowledge base and future integration with an independent Antioch College.
These volunteer efforts by alumni, faculty and friends reflect the in-kind endowment of our grassroots effort to protect the past and preserve the present as we build our future.
Please visit the Nonstop Library on-line and watch a 4-minute video about this extraordinary liberal arts intervention.
Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute
April 19, 2009
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March 17 Issue of the Nonstop Record
By Rose Pelzl – Volume 65, Issue 4
Proposal and Resolution reaffirms Nonstop’s “Important Role”
On March 6, 2009, the Antioch College Alumni Association received a document titled the “Nonstop Antioch Proposal to the Antioch College Alumni Board.” This document asked the Alumni Board to collaborate with the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute in “the reintegration of Nonstop into Antioch College” through the development of a proposal to be presented to the Antioch College Board of Trustees Pro Tempore.
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On March 7, 2009, the Antioch College Alumni Board passed a resolution reaffirming Nonstop’s “important role in our movement to develop an independent Antioch College.” The resolution created a task-force “to develop the proposal presented by Nonstop to this Board yesterday [March 6] for presentation to the Board Pro Tem.”
The full transcribed Antioch College Alumni Board resolution of March 7, 2009 states the following:
In the spirit of building from the movement toward an independent Antioch College that the Alumni Board has been trying to advance;
In the hope of strengthening the united movement that has informed the Alumni Board’s creation of 3 separate entities; one for finance, CRF; one for academics, Nonstop; one for governance,the Board Pro Tem;
The Alumni Board establishes a task-force to foster collaboration and to build consensus with representatives of the key stakeholder groups who have played such an important role in our movement to develop an independent Antioch College; Nonstop, the Board Pro Tem, and the Alumni Board;
The task-force is charged to develop the proposal presented by Nonstop to this Board yesterday [March 6] for presentation to the Board Pro Tem.
Transcribed from:
College Revival Fund Board meeting open session-March 7, 2009
By Horace | March 7, 2009
[Note this quote occurs at the 6:30-7:30 minute marks of this audio file]