As much as i think it would be nice to lend out books jim has a point in that there's not much accountability attached to anyone taking the books from the space if we haven't a sufficient way to log who's taking them. I think in the long run it would be good to figure out a system for allowing short term rentals. maybe even with a few restrictions on some books like how normal libraries don't let you take the encyclopedia volumes. A working copier (do we have one?) would have to suffice for books we deem too valuable to let it be loaned out.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Will Sargent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:will.sargent@gmail.com">will.sargent@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">��People who donate things to noisebridge do so with<br>
some sense of mission, and donors are part of the<br>
noisebridge community whether or not they are members.<br>
it is not excellent to disregard the intentions of<br>
donors: at least we should understand the intent of the<br>
donation before co-opting stuff for personal purposes.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Not quite sure I understand this; is there a license attached to donations?</div><div class="im"><div>�</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
��My point of view is that if reusing community<br>
resources for one's own purpose deprives the rest of<br>
the use, as is the case of missing books, that is<br>
sufficiently unexcellent that we should not do that.<br></blockquote><div>�</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
� i consider myself sympathic to anarchistic ideals.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I understand your concerns, and I hate lending books out of my personal library to people who never return them or "forget" they have them. �</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm happy to put down books or cash / checks down of equal or greater value as�collateral, and would even expect that. �Not to mention that losing a book would look pretty bad for me personally.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Will.</div></font></div>
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