Library, Page's trip, the revolution and anything else people have been bitching about

Dear all,

*Firstly, I've had a chat with Shunty and he has fixed it with us
to get into the union at Sunday from 12-3pm. to organize the library. I
can be there if we can't get enough help but I was planning to go home
this weekend so I would like to avoid it if necessary. Please don't moan
at Shunty as he has been really helpful this year and Sunday was my
fault because I assumed we could just blag our way in like last time and
didn't ask permission. OOPS!

*As to library access on weekends. If they are prepared to let us
in if we give them notice I don't see why we couldn't have a sunday a
month where we open the library to non students for the afternoon. I
remain to be convinced that there is demand to justify this though.

*As to the poor state of the cupboard we have, it's the best we
are going to get put up with it. My dad has spent a lot of time and
effort putting draws together to make it easier to sort through, so I
would appreciate it if everyone stopped going on about it and just
accepted it.

*The trip to Page's bar. I will be at Waterloo at 4.30 on
saturday near the tube entrance. It's rather a case of the blind leading
the blind as I will be following Nick's directions as well, but see you
there.

*I think that this deviding up tand creating a new Egham SF soc
is a really bad idea. IFIS is mostly the ascot, which would go on
without the Union but I think that it would cause a lot of problems.
Anyway, I can't see the Union letting us sell the books or keep them at
an ex students place. It's about insurance

*All the student members appreciate everything that the ex
students have done for us. Chris Lyth alone has saved us a fortune on
posters already this year and without the mailing lists that Cimio etc
have set up, not a lot would happen in the society. PLEASE never think
that we are not grateful.


Boy, am I going to be flamed for this,
Luke

Dalli L said:
Hoorah!
And students as well, presumably? :-)
You may be right. We shall see.

I know *I* would like to use the IFIS library a bit more, but I'm
borrowing each discworld book in turn off Chris L at the moment, so
I'm not likely to use it until after then...
I appreciate that, and you've certainly tried your hardest (and
managed very well under the circumstances) to make the best of what
we've got... But having visited the library when it was in Reid and at
85 St Judes, I've seen what it CAN be like... Maybe I'm spoiled.
[blah]
I'll see if I can produce some more detailed directions.

[blah]
THE STUDENT UNION doesn't seem to appreciate our value, even if the
society committee and members do.
Nah, you're doing pretty damned well. Even stu*** *unt sounds like
he's reasonably helpful when he's not in too much of a rush. It sounds
like the pathetic politics of the rest of the union that's crippling
us. It would be a damned good start if they could recognise us as
being probably the most active non-sporting society for the last 15
years, and giving us the theoric (sorry, grant?) and facilities we
deserve, rather than just assuming "oh, they're a bunch of nerds, give
them a hundred quid or so and a cupboard and hope they'll go away if
you ignore them".

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