Would anybody come?
Sep. 5th, 2007 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichSo at a meeting I attended last weekend I brought up an event idea that I loved long ago (and had shot down by a friend) to see if anyone would be interested in it... the folks at the meeting were but now I wonder if anyone outside of that group would be.
The idea is to set up a weekend at a hotel/convention center, bring in some copiers, and invite everyone to bring the specialized books from their personal libraries that they would never, ever let out of their sight - to share, under their own supervision, with others. No food or dirnk would be allowed in the convention room (read "library") and a box or two of white archival gloves would be at the door for each attendee to use.
It'd be a weekend of book-geeking. See, my thought is that between the members of the SCA in a local kingdom, we probably have a specialized research library to rival any US university - only we never get to share any of it because of the fear factor involved. So if we were guarenteed a controlled environment, rooms we could leave them in (our own hotel rooms) and 48 hours or so of free-range geeking - would anyone come?
(And if the answer is 'yes' - we need help finding a hotel. The thought is: winter time, when the camping season is over, a hotel large enough to 'do' an event/convention with inside hallways to rooms, and at least one room big enough to handle a fair number of tables along with a local copier company who'd rent (deliver and pick up) machines for the weekend. In my area, when I last brought it up, I found a company who'd supply two coin-operated machines with copyright info for an incredibly low cost. That was before the technological electonic explosion so I don't know if that is now 'passe' but I was going to check into it.)
The idea is to set up a weekend at a hotel/convention center, bring in some copiers, and invite everyone to bring the specialized books from their personal libraries that they would never, ever let out of their sight - to share, under their own supervision, with others. No food or dirnk would be allowed in the convention room (read "library") and a box or two of white archival gloves would be at the door for each attendee to use.
It'd be a weekend of book-geeking. See, my thought is that between the members of the SCA in a local kingdom, we probably have a specialized research library to rival any US university - only we never get to share any of it because of the fear factor involved. So if we were guarenteed a controlled environment, rooms we could leave them in (our own hotel rooms) and 48 hours or so of free-range geeking - would anyone come?
(And if the answer is 'yes' - we need help finding a hotel. The thought is: winter time, when the camping season is over, a hotel large enough to 'do' an event/convention with inside hallways to rooms, and at least one room big enough to handle a fair number of tables along with a local copier company who'd rent (deliver and pick up) machines for the weekend. In my area, when I last brought it up, I found a company who'd supply two coin-operated machines with copyright info for an incredibly low cost. That was before the technological electonic explosion so I don't know if that is now 'passe' but I was going to check into it.)
